DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 29, 2024
Supreme Court Tells Students To Drop Dead. Oh, they’ll get around to considering it eventually, but we all know the result is pre-ordained:
The Supreme Court has rejected the Biden administration’s emergency request to intervene in litigation that has blocked the president’s new student loan repayment program, leaving millions of borrowers in limbo.
An injunction, in a lawsuit brought by Republican-led states, has barred the Biden administration from moving forward with the repayment plan. The administration petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene, but the highest court in the land left the order in place while the appeals court weighs the merits of the case. The administration has vowed to fight for the program and will pause the collection of loans for the millions of people enrolled in the plan until the litigation concludes.
Remember when Republicans used to rail against ‘unelected judges’? It’s our turn.
Kamala Well-Positioned To Stop Another Coup Attempt? She already did it in Guatemala:
Bernardo Arévalo de León had just been inaugurated as Guatemala’s new leader, despite efforts by the country’s outgoing government over months to derail a democratic transition of power. Gordon, the U.S. vice president’s national security advisor, was in Guatemala to attend Arévalo’s inauguration with a delegation of other high-level Biden administration officials.
The letter congratulated him on his victory and invited him to Washington for a meeting with Harris, according to a copy reviewed by Foreign Policy. But its real significance was spelled out between the lines. A senior administration official involved in the discussions said the letter was a “signal that the U.S. gives full-throated support to Arévalo and Guatemala’s democratic transition of power.”
The inauguration itself took place after midnight on Jan. 15, following a dramatic final effort by members of Guatemala’s outgoing government to halt the proceedings. Gordon and other members of the U.S. delegation were instrumental in ensuring the transition of power took place, having imposed sanctions and visa restrictions, and back channeled with other embassies to pressure Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei to accept the election results and step aside.
The democratic transition in Guatemala represents one of the clearest victories of U.S. President Joe Biden’s agenda to promote democracy worldwide, as well as a rare example of Vice President Kamala Harris’s national security team playing a distinct and direct role in shepherding it through, according to interviews with multiple administration insiders and Central America experts. The episode provides possible insights into how Harris’s foreign-policy team would work should she win the presidential election in November.
Gonna stop posting Trump’s latest antics and rants. He is to the point where he just has to do and say outrageous stuff to keep his name out there. If you read this blog, and don’t think that Trump suffers from acute mental illness, then nothing I post will change your mind. I will, however, post this from a Harris spokesman:
“Donald Trump is out of his mind. If a family member posted what Donald Trump is sharing today, Americans would rightly be concerned,” Singer said, adding, “But this is what Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda offer America: prosecuting political opponents, using dangerous conspiracy theories to justify harmful policies, and dividing Americans against each other.”
Yeahyeah, I cheated and provided a link to his latest rantings. Maybe tomorrow I’ll do better.
Gotta cut it off here.
Got bigger fish to fry. To quote Donald Trump: Stay tuned.
What do you want to talk about?
Trump remains an evil clown at his core, as such the act needs new material when a pie in the face no longer suffices and his baggy pants are filled with Depends in need of a changing. The problem remains an electorate that is 50% stupid by volume, Trump will be gone, they will remain. And it give the Republicans hope.
Anyone see ads disparaging Matt Meyer for “ignoring” sexual harassment in county government? Nasty and shrill…