This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, September 6, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

However strong the case might be for student loan forgiveness,

the case for the legality of the president doing it alone

without congressional permission is another matter entirely. Kato's Tommy

Barry details why he believes the Biden administration is on shaky legal ground in

attempting to cancel billions of dollars in student debt.

I spoke with Neil McCluskey about some of the policy elements of

President Biden's planned cancellation of student debt that he has chosen to undertake,

but we haven't seen a lot of details yet.

He's at least announced the outline of it. details yet, he's at least announced the outline of it.

But notably, the Department of Education put out a document that sort of detailed what that agency or attorneys for the administration, at least within the

Education Department, believe puts them on solid legal footing when it comes to trying to cancel all of this debt.

How rare is that for an agency to actually come out

unprompted with an announcement of, hey, this is, we're on solid legal footing.

The president can do this without Congress, Congress has already spoken.

We're good to go.

It's pretty rare, this was the Office of Legal Counsel that wrote the longer of the two documents

that they released.

It's pretty rare for it to be released publicly and immediately.

So the Office of Legal Counsel will usually provide advice behind the

scenes, give an opinion whenever the President is taking unusual or novel legal action or is

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