Bedtime Reading for the High Court

Friend of the court likens the executive branch to the mouse who is given a cookie.

AP/Damian Dovarganes
Congressman Xavier Becerra, left, reads the book 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' to children at Los Angeles on September 6, 2013. AP/Damian Dovarganes

Could President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan fall prey to the Supreme Court’s movement to curb the administrative state? New amicus briefs in the Supreme Court’s upcoming case on the question shed light on the danger of the executive usurping powers granted in the Constitution to Congress — in the event, the cancellation by the Education Department of half a trillion dollars of student debt. 

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