One of the president’s campaign promises Joe Biden to Americans was declared invalid by the Supreme Court this Friday. It’s about the remission of part of the student debtmany of which contract to pay for their college studies and then continue to pay for years.

The plan that Biden had implemented to comply with this measure would benefit 43 million Americans and consisted of a “forgiveness” of $10,000 in debt of those who met the requirements.

But the judges of the High Council that determined the Biden administration had no authority to cancel that portion of the debt. Anthony Zurcher, a correspondent for the BBC in the United States, explained that “it all boils down to what is called the ‘principal questions doctrine’, a conservative legal theory that when it comes to issues of major political or economic importance, Congress must explicitly approve the policy”.

Agreement signed to raise the US debt ceiling

In other words, the president can defer debt payments, as he has been doing since 2020 to ease the economic burden during the pandemic, but you can’t pay off the debt. Not even in part.

This decision caused controversy among the 26 million Americans who had already filed for debt reliefacquired by financing his university studies.

activists and students they are waiting for Joe Biden to announce a new plan before student loan payments resumein October of this year. Biden is likely to announce new actions to protect borrowers, according to an official consulted by the White House NBC.

The decision to take positive action

This is not the only measure of the Supreme Court that has consequences for university studies. Yesterday, the majority of this group of 9 judges, made up of 6 conservatives and 3 liberals, He decided prohibits affirmative action (also known as affirmative action) at universities.

Affirmative action consists of increasing the proportion of students of other ethnicities in the institutions. Recruiters considered the difficulties applicants faced based on their skin color or ethnicity for admission. But this was called “unconstitutional” by the judges.

Many universities that used this policy to create a diverse space are now having to find another way to enforce the law.