Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns of 'economic crisis for millions of people' after SCOTUS threw out Biden's plan for student-debt forgiveness
and called on her own party to continue fighting for student-debt relief.
"Justice Alito accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish vacation gifts from a billionaire who lobbied to cancel the student loan forgiveness," Ocasio-CortezThe Supreme Court's decision came in two separate rulings. The high court ruled that the plaintiffs in one case, US Department of Education v. Brown, did not have standing — but the second case, Biden v. Nebraska, prevailed and the six GOP-led states had standing to sue on behalf of student-loan company, MOHELA.
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