Supreme Court must stop Biden snatching this power from the people on student debt handouts
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The Supreme Court will soon look at whether President Biden has the authority to cancel $430 billion in federal student-loan debt.
Carrie Campbell Severino is president of the Judicial Crisis Network.
Congress, in other words, has the power of the purse. As explained in an amicus brief filed with the Court by eleven experts with extensive experience in the federal government, including a retired court of appeals judge and two former attorneys general, "The power of the purse is the central and most important constitutional power reserved exclusively to the legislative branch, enabling it to oversee and control virtually every activity of the federal government."
This separation-of-powers principle traces back to the struggle of Parliament to take the power of the purse from the Crown, as a check on tyranny.
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