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Emergency Episode: The Biden Student Debt Oral Arguments and Emergency Powers
Constitutional Crisis Hotline
47 minutes
2 years ago
Emergency Episode: The Biden Student Debt Oral Arguments and Emergency Powers
A breaking-news emergencies podcast right after the oral arguments in the Biden Student Debt cases: Nebraska v. Biden and Dept of Education vs. Brown, joined by:
Liza Goitein, senior director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program, and a nationally expert on presidential emergency powers. She wrote immediately after the Biden plan was announced for the Washington Post: “Biden Using Emergency Powers for Student Debt Relief? That’s a Slippery Slope”
And we’re joined by Nestor Davidson, Albert A. Walsh Chair in Real Estate, Land Use, and Property Law; Faculty Director, Urban Law Center.
Jed explains his amicus brief (and essay proposing an "Emergency Question Doctrine" to limit the Major Question Doctrine), which Justice Kavanaugh mentioned in oral argument.
Constitutional Crisis Hotline
The podcast about threats to constitutional democracy at home and abroad. We cover breaking news about democracies breaking.
