Supreme Court requested by Trump’s Justice Department to freeze student debt and environmental cases

About four cases have been requested to be frozen by the Justice Department of the Trump administration. Questioning the ‘basis and soundness’ of the cases during Biden’s reign, acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris told the justices that after the change in administration, the government intends to reassess them.

The US Supreme Court is hearing an appeal about the ability of the students to receive debt forgiveness, which was passed by the Biden administration. In case of being defrauded by their respective colleges, the easing of the debt is what is being challenged by the present Trump administration.

The regulatory decisions underlying the particular lawsuit, including the environment, are considered reversing it and are being studied by the Justice Department. As per the reports, the Supreme Court hearing isn’t being challenged by the opposers, even as the present dispensation is in the process of reversing the rule.

If the disputes remain unresolved, the new motions might open up a chance to include a briefing schedule again. But the probability is that the Trump administration might keep quiet about the said briefing, by reversing the very decisions that deterred the legal challenges.

Even as the particular case related to the student debt isn’t being challenged, yet other three out of four, related to environmental ones are being opposed. The court filings have indicated that proposed haltings by the administration are being challenged. As the new dispensation takes hold of the reigns, the new filings are beginning an era of reversals.

As a matter of fact, the Trump administration is yet to go ahead with the reversals of any pending cases. But that might not be always the case in the long run. The Presidential moves in these cases, are a reminder of exactly what the Biden administration did upon assuming office. Again, it remains to be seen what Trump’s Justice Department will do while handling other equally important cases from the Biden administration.

Earlier Biden too had stopped funds assigned by Trump

Biden had earlier stopped the amounts assigned by the Trump administration for the construction of a border wall along Mexico. The Justice Department then, had asked the high court to freeze a big tussle over the issue of Trump’s efforts towards using the funds by the military spending for the same.

Thereafter, Biden stopped the funding and the case was disposed of by the court. In the case of Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, the same tussle repeated again. And again, the Supreme Court froze the case during the Biden administration takeover and the justices annulled it.

Of particular mention is the fight over gender-affirming care bans for minors in Tennessee and the region’s constitutional correctness of the ban on the above. Under Trump, it is widely supposed that the challenge by the Biden administration to the ban might be abandoned.    

Following these cases, the Trump administration’s Justice Department is now looking into a dispute over Louisiana’s congressional map. On Friday, the Department reversed the Biden administration’s position on the ongoing tussle over the inclusion of an additional majority-Black district. Applying a wrong legal framework by the lower court in dismissing the design was the argument put forth by the Biden regime then.

As of now, the Trump DoJ is annulling the said position, apart from its presence at the verbal arguments in March-April in this particular case. Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had reinstated California’s clean cars program, a decision which was sought to be finished off by the oil and biofuel industry. The Supreme Court had agreed to revive the decision of the industry, around one week after the earlier election.

The program directed stricter-than-federal vehicle emissions standards for the vehicles. Harris has written in the motion, “Given the Acting Administrator’s determination, it would be appropriate for the Court to hold further proceedings in this case in abeyance to allow EPA to reassess the basis for and soundness of the 2022 reinstatement decision.”

There are two other cases pending at the Supreme Court, related to environmental concerns, which have been asked to be halted by the Trump administration. However, both of them agree on the issue of the kind of venue plaintiffs can sue while challenging certain EPA actions.

Another issue of concern is whether some oil refineries can be exempted from approved ethanol percentages in the gasoline they produce. Yet another is related to the dispute over the utilization of better alternatives to fight smog by Oklahoma and Utah.