Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Saturday, the

first of July 2023.

Today, a look at what's next for student loan forgiveness after a monumental Supreme

Court decision, plus a State Department review criticizes the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and

we remember Alan Arkin.

It was a busy Friday on the Supreme Court, the Court struck down President Joe Biden's

plan to forgive student loan debt, and in a separate decision, the Court sided with a

web designer who wants to decline to create websites for same-sex weddings because of

her religious beliefs.

I caught up with USA Today's Supreme Court correspondent John Fritzi to discuss both

of them.

Howdy, John.

Hey, so the Supreme Court has struck down Biden's plan to wipe out student loan debt.

What exactly did the Court decide here, John?

You know, this case really came down to three words, wave or modify.

The federal law that the Biden administration tried to use to do this said that the Secretary

of Education had authority to wave or modify the terms of student loans.

What the Supreme Court said in a 6-3 ruling is that, look, that doesn't mean you can completely

wipe away $400 billion in student loan debt relief.

This is part of a series of cases where the Supreme Court has basically cabined the ability

of a president to act unilaterally.

With the Supreme Court has said in case after case, and we've seen this in the eviction

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