Impeach President Biden. No, seriously. Do it
The President has been consistently hostile toward the Constitution
I know that people toss around the word "impeachment" these days like it was a doobie at Woodstock. But in my opinion, President Joe Biden should be impeached for his willful disregard for the Constitution in an attempt to transfer student loan debt from debtors to taxpayers.
He was repeatedly told that this was unconstitutional. The Speaker of the House at the time (Nancy Pelosi) said point blank that Congress would have to approve this. Hell, Biden himself all but admitted that it was unlawful. But he also said he was going to do it anyway and see what the court did.
Well, the court weighed in this morning. On a 6-3 vote (you know damned good and well who dissented) the High Court blocked the Education Department from canceling up to $20,000 of student debt owed by tens of millions of Americans.
To those of us with a libertarian bent, this was an open-and-shut case. By what moral authority do you claim the right to force me (or anyone else) to pay off your voluntarily-incurred debt? No one could answer that question. There’s a reason for that.
The President’s only chance of winning this was the potential failure to find a plaintiff who could demonstrate measurable harm from the policy, or “standing.” There were two cases before the court. And in one of them, the nine justices ruled that the plaintiffs had no standing. But the second case was different, and allowed SCOTUS to kick the President in the SCROTUM. Chief Justice Roberts’ using Pelosi’s comments in his majority opinion was a perfect dessert to an otherwise fine meal.
Had this gambit been successful, it would have rendered Article I of the Constitution (which outlines Separation of Powers) essentially moot. It would have demonstrated that the judiciary was powerless to stop any Executive overreach. In short, there would have been little that a sitting President and his agencies could not do without a vote from Congress.
That is NOT how we do governance. Or at least it is not supposed to be. If this were the President’s only willful violation of the Constitution I would be willing to grant him a mulligan. But it’s not. It is merely the latest and the most egregious.
In a perfect world, we would be swearing in President Kamala Harris this autumn. No, I don't like the sound of that, either...but those are the rules. And I most assuredly do NOT like having a sitting President that is an active enemy of the Constitution of the United States.