New Trump Rule Declares Most Public Service Work 'Illegal,' Ineligible For Loan Forgiveness - Above the Law
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Don't fall for their nonsense, this is a broadside against public service.

If you weren’t already super psyched for the Big Beautiful Bill borrowing caps making law school unaffordable for many, get ready to learn that most lawyerly public service is no longer getting loan forgiveness. Because public service itself is going to “illegal.”

The Trump administration’s ongoing war on the legal profession continues with the Department of Education releasing its finalized Public Service Loan Forgiveness rule — a process kicked off in March when Trump issued his Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness Executive Order — and while its impact will be felt across education, the new rule is especially brutal for law school graduates, with the DOE cutting off forgiveness to those causes it deems to be supporting “illegal activity.” And, if you hadn’t already guessed what it means to support “illegal” activity in this regime, they mean jobs like “representing immigrants” and “advocating for transgender rights.”

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    194·
    7 hours ago

    Biden couldn’t do shit for student loans via SCOTUS, what makes you think he could prevent this? The damn game is rigged against common sense.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      154·
      7 hours ago

      SCOTUS told us it isn’t illegal if the president does it. He literally could have mandated all data on federal student loans be forgiven. Biden sat on his hands for 4 years and expected people to just support his designated successor.

      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
        104·
        7 hours ago

        No they didn’t. They said they were the arbiters of what a president could and couldn’t legally do and they wouldn’t tell you what those were ahead of time.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          34·
          6 hours ago

          No they didn’t

          They said it, you’re just ignorant of it and opinionated …

          In a recent interview with The New York Times, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett conceded that the high court would be incapable of enforcing its own rulings if the Trump administration openly defied orders that interfered with the president’s political agenda.

          “[T]he court lacks the power of the purse,” she told columnist Ross Douthat during an interview for his podcast. “We lack the power of the sword. And so, we interpret the Constitution, we draw on precedents, we have these questions of structure, and we make the most with the tools that we have.”

          https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/we-lack-the-power-justice-barrett-basically-admits-scotus-can-do-nothing-if-trump-violates-rulings/

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      137·
      7 hours ago

      Biden couldn’t do shit

      I couldn’t bake a cake this morning, because I didnt bother to put in the effort.

      Biden couldn’t forgive student loans, because he didn’t bother to put in the effort.

      The damn game is rigged

      No disagreement, just curious why you think a literal lifetime politician like Biden who in 2020 couldn’t shut up about wanting to work with Republicans again wasn’t one of the ones rigging it…

      He ain’t one of us, he never was.