The Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy Is Being Questioned,’ Biden Says
President's remarks came day before his loan-forgiveness plan was overturned
President Biden made some pointed remarks about the nation's highest court, just a day before right-wing justices blocked his plan to forgive student loans for millions of Americans.
MSNBC host Nicholle Wallace asked Biden about the Supreme Court Thursday in an interview on her program.
His remarks came just before the six Republican-appointed justices ruled against his loan-forgiveness plan, effectively killing Biden’s $400 billion initiative to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans.
The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, said the Biden administration overstepped its authority with the plan, and it leaves borrowers on the hook for repayments that are expected to resume in the fall.
“Do you worry that without court reform, this conservative majority is too young and too conservative, that they might do too much harm?” Wallace asked.
“Well, I think they may do too much harm, but I think if we start the process of trying to expand the court, we’re going to politicize it maybe forever in a way that is not healthy,” Biden replied, rejecting a remedy for the high court commonly supported by his fellow Democrats.
“That you can’t get back?” Wallace pressed.
“That I can’t get back. And I think, look, I think — maybe it’s just the optimist in me — I think that some of the court are beginning to realize their legitimacy is being questioned in ways it hadn’t been questioned in the past,” Biden said.
Three of the six right-wing justices were appointed by Biden's immediate predecessor, Republican Donald Trump.
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