Student Loan Forgiveness In Court with Beth Akers and Adam White

Last week, the Supreme Court heard two cases—Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown—concerning the legality of the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan. In this episode, Nat speaks with Beth Akers and Adam White about these two lawsuits and their potential ramifications for our higher education system and American democracy.Beth Akers is a Senior Fellow at AEI, the author of Making College Pay, and the coauthor of Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt. Adam White is a Senior Fellow at AEI, where he focuses on American constitutionalism, the Supreme Court, and the administrative state. He is also the co-director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.Show Notes:Audio for Oral ArgumentsThe Biggest Legal Flaw in Biden’s Student Loan GambitGod Save This Honorable Court—and We Can, TooHigher-Value Higher EdStudent Loan Forgiveness Debacle Has Already Cost $255 Billion in Lost Federal RevenueBiden’s Changes to Student Loans Means the Vast Majority of Borrowers Will Never Repay Their DebtStudent Debt Forgiveness Tracker