The pandemic, in this formulation, gave Biden extraordinary powers—powers that under normal circumstances the president would not have.
It was an inherently dubious justification, given the novel and expansive reading of the HEROES Act. But Biden completely undercut it on a 60 Minutes interview this weekend when he declared, flatly, that “the pandemic is over.”
If the pandemic is over, then there is no ongoing national emergency, which means that the already shaky legal ground on which the Biden administration based its action has now collapsed entirely. …
The Biden administration’s legal ground for canceling student debt via executive action was already poorly rationalized nonsense ginned up to enact a blatantly illegal policy that served as an expensive giveaway to Biden’s voters. Biden’s 60 Minutes interview shows that he cannot even be bothered to keep his shoddy story straight.
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