THIS COURT IS THE MOST PRO-BUSINESS AND ANTI-PEOPLE COURT WE’VE EVER SEEN — AND IT MAY PERMANENTLY BLOCK STUDENT DEBT RELIEF

The Court has a pro-business, anti-people record and consistently bends its own rules to serve the interests of key political donors and corporate allies. On February 28, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases — Biden v. Nebraska and Dept. of Education v. Brown — that will determine whether millions of Americans receive aid through President Biden’s student loan debt relief program.

Millions of low- and middle-income Americans are awaiting student debt relief from the Department of Education after conservative-packed district and circuit courts blocked President Biden’s debt relief plan. The debt relief program is expected to especially help people of color and low-income Americans, and up to 20 million borrowers could have their debt totally erased. But the fate of the student debt relief program now falls with the Supreme Court as it hears two cases on February 28: Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown. 

The Court has a long record of hostility toward the American people’s needs — last term alone, it eliminated the right to bodily autonomy and handed gun manufacturers a huge win by dismantling a century-old gun violence prevention law. It is also the most pro-corporate Court of all time, and decided more than 83% of business-related cases in favor of corporations in the 2020-2021 term. Time and time again, this Court has proven that it will change rules, abandon jurisprudential principles, and give handouts to corporations when they come knocking on its door. Our memo explores just a few of the ways the Court has thrown people and consumers under the bus to appease corporate interests in recent years:

Take Back the Court raises awareness about the urgent need to expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court to address the theft of the court by Senator Mitch McConnell during the Obama Administration. Without adding seats, Congress will not be able to restore the right to vote, ensure reproductive freedom, protect workers, halt our climate emergency, or pass new legislation. Court expansion, which can be accomplished without a constitutional amendment, is the only reform that enables the un-rigging of the system and the restoration of democracy. Learn more: https://www.takebackthecourt.today/