Did Biden Just Create A Constitutional Crisis?

The Supreme Court told President Joe Biden that he didn't have the authority to forgive student loan debt.

He did anyway, bragging that the Court "Didn't stop me." So why do we even have a legislative branch and a high court if the president is going to make law as if he were a king? It's Biden's party, and its activist media, that has been carping for years about losing "Our democracy." Yet when a Democratic president bypasses the checks and balances that are the backbone of our republic, the three co-equal branches framework of government that is intended to guard against descending into a dictatorship, they celebrate rather than condemn.

In June 2023, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, struck down the Biden administration's plan to cancel up to $400 billion in student loans, which it had announced in August 2022.

In her concurring opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted that "When it comes to" national policy, "The Constitution gives Congress the reins - a point of context that no reasonable interpreter could ignore." But high court rulings apparently don't apply when a Democratic president decides they don't.

Biden acknowledged last week that "My MAGA Republican friends in the Congress, elected officials, and special interests stepped in and sued us," and that "The Supreme Court blocked it." "But that didn't stop me," he continued.

"When the separation of powers becomes seriously distorted," explains the Pacific Legal Foundation, "The checks and balances of the Constitution lose much of their force to limit government's tendency toward tyranny." If any Republican president had so egregiously and brazenly ignored a Supreme Court ruling, in essence telling the Court it is inferior to the presidency, the Democrats and the media would be constantly shrieking about the dangerous emergence of a "Constitutional crisis." They've done it before.

Keith E. Whittington, a Princeton University professor of politics, identifies three types of constitutional crises: a crisis of operation, a crisis of fidelity and a crisis of bad faith. 

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