Brown has student education loans but is entirely ineligible for Biden's forgiveness program because her loans are privately held. Taylor has loans but is ineligible for that full $20,000 indebted relief. The task Creators Network Foundation sued on their behalf, arguing that Biden's bailout plan violated the Administrative Procedure Act (which requires a period of public comment) which the Department of Education lacks the legal right to implement this program.
Pittman found that this program did not violate administrative procedure. Instead, he found that the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (\”HEROES Act\”)-which Biden used to justify his move-does not actually \”provide the executive branch clear congressional authorization to create a $400 billion student loan forgiveness program.\” Bident's student debt settlement plan \”is thus an unconstitutional exercise of Congress's legislative power and should be vacated.\”
\”In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen along with a phone,\” Pittman wrote in his decision. \”Instead, we're ruled with a Constitution that gives for three distinct and independent branches of presidency.\”
In a statement yesterday, Job Creators Network Foundation President Elaine Parker said Biden's bailout \”would did absolutely nothing to address the root cause of unaffordable tuition: greedy and bloated colleges that raise tuition far more than inflation every year while sitting on $700 billion in endowments. We hope that the court's decision today will lay the groundwork for real solutions to the student loan crisis.\”
Of course, this battle isn't over yet. The Department of Justice has filed an appeal, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said yesterday.
More than 26 million individuals have already applied for student loan forgiveness, she said, and the Biden administration could keep their information \”so it may quickly process their relief after we prevail in the court.\”
The Job Creators Network Foundation suit is among several cases challenging this program. Included in this are a lawsuit from six Republican-led states and something in the Cato Institute. \”Cato's suit joins at least six others, with plaintiffs making various claims of injury,\” noted Neal McCluskey, director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom, in a blog post. \”The ultimate purpose of all the suits, though, is identical: To stop a move that is not only patently unconstitutional, but will inflict many painful costs on society.\”
\”The constitutional issue is straightforward: The Constitution gives the power the purse to Congress, but in declaring that it would forgive as much as $20,000 in loans for households making below $250,000 a year, the Biden administration essentially created about $400 billion in new spending,\” McCluskey wrote late recently.
We KNEW that the #Biden Administration's #StudentLoanForgiveness program was illegal. We took these to court and the judge agreed -declaring the program illegal and vacating it.
Now, let's focus on real solutions to the student loan crisis. https://t.co/xlss5pQRCe— Job Creators Network (@JobCreatorsUSA) November 11, 2022
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Nationally, chain pharmacies declined by 6 % between 2022 and 2022. Then came post-pandemic closures this year, and CVS' announcement that it would shutter 900 stores within the next three years, reducing \”store density in certain locations\” in order to respond to \”changes in population, consumer buying patterns, and future health needs.\”
It's no more a period: Decried by historic preservationists and independent merchants, the big chain drugstore took urban neighborhoods by storm as big-city populations rebounded in the 1990s and 2000s. They weren't just drugstores; they sold everything, seemingly everywhere, at all hours. For individuals without cars, they were a godsend. They were as convenient like a neighborhood shop, and just what they lacked in friendly felines they made up for in huge selections and low prices. One such store was the colossal Walgreens that opened in Center City Philadelphia in 2013, offering Starbucks coffee and cut fruit over 26,000 brightly lit square feet. It was pitched like a \”flagship for the pharmacy chain's pivot into American urban centers,\” wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer, and won over skeptics. The store closed in February.
But \”contrary towards the claims of law-and-order conservatives, big-city chain pharmacies are not closing because of shoplifting,\” writes Grabar. Shoplifting may be one factor, but much bigger trends are driving shutdowns. These include overzealous expansion in towns in the last many years, pandemic-era alterations in where individuals live and work, and people's growing reliance on online shopping for every type of products.
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