The Supreme Court's recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understands the hard-right agenda. Their goal has always been to install Justices whose job is to turn back the clock on our freedoms, on decades of constitutional decisions, and on our continuing struggle to “form a more perfect union” that includes all of us.
Let's vote out their political enablers and rein in the dark, subversive money that supports them in their quest to reverse a century of progress.
$760 billion in PPP loans were forgiven.
That’s $360 billion more than this Administration’s student debt relief program.
And, several Republican members of Congress who opposed student debt relief benefited from those PPP loans.
Some of the same elected Republicans who voted to overturn my student loan relief plan benefitted from thousands in pandemic relief loans to keep their own businesses open.
Those loans were forgiven.
Now, they refuse to extend the same relief to borrowers with student debt.
What’s actually disturbing is the feature of the Roberts Court to accept lavish gifts from billionaires, hide that fact, & then rule in their favor.
It would be an insult to democracy to respect this conduct. Legitimacy is not a birthright - it is earned. They are destroying it
Following today’s legally unsound Supreme Court ruling, I am urging the Biden Administration to implement a Plan B immediately to cancel student debt for tens of millions of Americans.
Read my full statement here:
The same Supreme Court that overturned Roe now refuses to follow the plain language of the law on student loan cancellation. This fight is not over. The President has more tools to cancel student debt — and he must use them.
This is how fascism works. It starts off slowly with some seemingly extreme people normalizing rhetoric that demonizes anyone who is not the chosen minority and then they place their key players in certain positions and propaganda/fear monger tf out of us. Then all of a sudden, back to back like an avalanche, our rights are stripped right before our eyes. When we ask ourselves how Nazi Germany happened, understand it was NOT overnight. I hope we can connect the dots of understanding that fascism is the elite’s weapon against the ignorant/exhausted lower classes. It is the corporate oligarchy in direct action. It is white supremacist DELUSION. We cannot be silent. We must dissent. We must fight this with complete divestment from the institutions that uphold these sick values that do NOT represent the majority of US citizens. This is a MINORITY with a whole lot of power & money in their hands. The Supreme Court is bought out and these rulings prove who they work for. It is not the people.
Extremists on the Supreme Court have once again substituted politics for the rule of law, but this fight is not over. The president has more tools to #CancelStudentDebt, and he must use them.
Justice Alito accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish vacation gifts from a billionaire who lobbied to cancel the student loan forgiveness.
After the gifts, Alito voted to overturn. This SCOTUS’ corruption undercuts its own legitimacy by putting its rulings up for sale.
Trump hosted Kyle Rittenhouse after he killed Black Lives Matter protesters.
Greg Abbott wants to pardon Daniel Perry, who murdered a Black Lives Matter protester.
Ron DeSantis is fundraising for Daniel Penny, who killed a Black man on a subway.
This is the Republican Party.
Anyone who had the pleasure of watching Richard Belzer portray Det. John Munch will never forget how much he inhabited that beloved character to make it his own. Our condolences go out to his loved ones as we join them in mourning his loss, but also in celebrating his memory.