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John Patrick Hunt, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis

Student debt cancellation program in jeopardy as Supreme Court justices hear arguments

The estimated cost of President Biden's student loan cancellation program is $430 billion. Douglas Rissing via Getty Images

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Feb. 28, 2023, regarding a multistate lawsuit to block the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation program. The Conversation asked John Patrick Hunt, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, and Celeste K. Carruthers, an economics professor at the University of Tennessee, what’s at stake and what clues the court has given as to how it may rule on the matter.

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