Last week, the Supreme Court heard two cases—Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown—concerning the legality of the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan. In this episode, Nat speaks with Beth Akers and Adam White about these two lawsuits and their potential ramifications for our higher education system and American democracy.

Beth Akers is a Senior Fellow at AEI, the author of Making College Pay, and the coauthor of Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt.

Adam White is a Senior Fellow at AEI, where he focuses on American constitutionalism, the Supreme Court, and the administrative state. He is also the co-director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Show Notes:

Audio for Oral Arguments

The Biggest Legal Flaw in Biden’s Student Loan Gambit

God Save This Honorable Court—and We Can, Too

Higher-Value Higher Ed

Student Loan Forgiveness Debacle Has Already Cost $255 Billion in Lost Federal Revenue

Biden’s Changes to Student Loans Means the Vast Majority of Borrowers Will Never Repay Their Debt

Student Debt Forgiveness Tracker