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New Tool Creates Personalized Legal Memo Asking Education Department to Cancel Student Debt

“President Biden says he is going to use every tool he can to cancel student debt, but there is still much more he can do,” said a co-founder of the Debt Collective. “With this new tool, we are calling his bluff.”

By Jessica Corbett. Published 8-28-2023 by Common Dreams

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“Filling out this form creates an individual demand letter, tailored to your own student debt story, calling on the Department of Education to use its powers to cancel not just your debt, but everyone’s.”

That’s how the Debt Collective describes a tool it launched Monday to increase pressure on the Biden administration to deliver on long-promised relief from federal student loan repayments.

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Barrett Boots ‘Nothingburger’ Right-Wing Challenge to Biden Student Loan Cancellation

“Under any reading of precedent,” said one legal reporter, “the Republican activists who brought this lawsuit have absolutely no right to challenge a single dollar of debt forgiveness.”

By Brett Wilkins  Published 10-20-2022 by Common Dreams

Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearing. Screenshot: C-SPAN

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday rejected a challenge to the Biden administration’s student debt cancellation plan, a move anticipated by jurists and journalists alike.

Barrett declined to consider an appeal by Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL)—a conservative law firm that previously drew attention for investigating claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election and coming up empty—on behalf of Brown County Taxpayers Association, a right-wing advocacy group. Continue reading

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