Growing up, and especially lately, I was always impressed by the concept the country was under the rule of law. Now comes a Supreme Court where feelings have replaced respect for the law and individual's wishes about what the law should be replace the actual law itself.
Last week, the Court ruled 43 million Americans will not be given relief from student loan debt, not because the Secretary of Education was not empowered to "waive or modify" the terms of the loan program, but because the Court's conservative majority believed it was unfair that some students and their parents repaid the loans in full. They not only granted standing to the plaintiffs in the suit where none existed, but ruled in their favor, disregarding the clear intentions of the statute.
As we celebrate Independence Day tomorrow, it would be wise to consider the threat of a new absolutism being practiced as egregiously as was done by King George.
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