Immunity doesn't mean that the courts will actually treat the action as valid. Just that Biden wouldn't be prosecuted. A court can turn around and say no, the student debt remains owing
It can't unshoot a protester
Biden directs the appropriate cabinet secretaries to forgive the loans. Court says no. Biden doesn't care. Promises every government official a pardon for going along with it and helping the scheme. Ultimately, now, what remedy exists?
this is a wildly unimaginative solution, and reinstituting the debt would be unpopular--as well as pragmatically difficult if biden were to dismantle the apparatus: pull out from the collections contracts, and order all records destroyed, and all records in contractors' db's destroyed.
1) Court's out, so whether they treat an issue as in/valid will have to wait till Biden's 2nd term
2) "You can't unshoot a protestor" is exactly right, so let's take some new steps to ensure that Trump doesn't get the chance
I get why people are eager to find the silver lining here by going "well, can't Biden use this too?"
No. He can't. This is literally only useful to help a President get away with committing crimes. What crime do you think it would be helpful for Biden to commit right now?
I mean you aren't wrong.
But couldn't Biden also order the records of the debts be expunged.
Like you can't unshoot a protester, but you also can't collect a debt where the records don't exist.