The conservative supermajority on the US Supreme Court appears sceptical that President Joe Biden’s administration can implement a student loan debt cancellation plan that would provide relief to millions of Americans, a programme that several justices suggested was unfair to other borrowers who are not covered within the scope of the plan.
But justices on the nation’s high court also weren’t necessarily buying arguments that plaintiffs have the proper legal footing to strike down the plan, targeted in a pair of challenges from Republican officials and conservative activist groups that have accused the administration of overstepping its authority.
