The conservative justices on the Supreme Court were skeptical of President Biden's

plan to forgive student loans.

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I'm Jeff Pierre. It's Wednesday, March 1st. from the

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The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday about the student loan relief plan.

The central question was whether President Biden has the authority to cancel up to $20,000

in federal student loans for millions of Americans.

The court's conservatives have the majority and they were skeptical.

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts questioned the fairness of providing loan forgiveness to some and not others.

He also suggested that something so costly would need Congress's involvement.

If you're talking about this in the abstract, I think most casual observers would say if you're going

to give up that much amount of money, if you're going to affect the obligations of that many

Americans on a subject that's of great controversy, they would think that's something for Congress to act on.

And if they haven't acted on it, then maybe that's a good lesson to say for the President or the

administrative bureaucracy that maybe that's not something they should undertake on their own.

While these arguments were happening, protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court.

Here's one student talking about what they think will happen if their student loans aren't

forgiven.

Obviously it's going to be having to take one, two, maybe up to three jobs to pay those

off while I attend and want to pursue a higher education.

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