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mboldened by a historic Supreme Court ruling earlier this year, federal courts from coast to coast are erasing Joe Biden’s efforts to expand his executive powers to encompass everything from imposing vaccine mandates to canceling personal debt without Congress’ blessing.
With each ruling, judges are sending an unmistakable message to the 46th president: America has no kings under its Constitution.
Biden’s latest repudiation came Thursday night in Texas, where a judge offered a history lesson ripped from the Federalist Papers in striking down the administration’s student loan forgiveness plan that would have shifted more than $400 billion in personal debt to taxpayers without the blessing of Congress.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman called Biden’s election year gift to young voters the most egregious abuse of executive power in presidential history, equating it to the sort of tyranny the Founding Fathers sought to eradicate with the Constitution.
“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” the Trump-appointed jurist wrote. “Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government. As President James Madison warned, ‘the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.'”
While the most colorful of the recent rulings against Biden, Pittman’s message was nearly identical to those in district and appellate courts across the United States this year.
