Meet the Players
Previously the Connecticut State Department of Education commissioner from 2019 to 2021, he currently serves as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Education.
Who is Miguel Cardona?
The final ruling, number wise, of this case. 58% of case rulings fall into this category.
What is 9-0?
This Justice delivered the majority opinion in the Court's ruling for Brown, declaring the petitioners "failed to show that their injury is fairly traceable to the Plan."
Who is Justice Samuel Alito?
The initials of this environmental lawyer and 2024 presidential candidate who slammed Biden for failing to deliver on one of his most touted campaign promises.
Who is RFK Jr.?
According to one professor (no idea who it could be), this team should be disqualified from Major League Baseball. They won the World Series in 2022.
Who are the Houston Astros?
A graduate of the University of Dallas, this man had $35,000 in student loan debt and was not eligible under the student loan forgiveness plan.
Who is Alexander Taylor?
What is Article III?
This former waitress and current Congresswoman urged the Biden administration to try a different way to cancel student loan debt immediately after Brown's verdict.
Who is Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)?
Lawyers for the Biden administration told the Supreme Court it could cancel billions of dollars in student debt because Congress had given it that authority using this 2003 Act.
What is the HEROES Act?
Colin Thibault was the last person to receive one of these case brief prizes. We hope it was worth the wait.
What is a golden gavel?
In September 2022, this state, alongside five others, sued the Biden administration, seeking to block his student loan forgiveness program from going into effect.
What is Kansas?
This amount is the maximum amount that could be forgiven under the proposed student loan forgiveness program.
What is $20,000?
This progressive Congresswoman from Missouri's 1st District called upon Justices Scalia and Thomas to resign upon their stances in Brown.
Who is Representative Cori Bush (D-MS)?
Name both 1. the Department that Miguel Cardona heads and 2. the three-word term Republicans used to describe the poor chances of the Biden Plan.
What are DOE and DOA (dead on arrival)?
Decided in 2018, this case overturned Korematsu v. United States (1945) and ruled 5-4 that a "travel ban" was legal.
What is Trump v Hawaii 585 US _ (2018)?
She is the current solicitor general, serving in her role since October 2021, and has argued numerous cases on behalf of the government going back to 2014, when she was an assistant to the solicitor general.
Who is Elizabeth Prelogar?
This circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals declined to stay the injunction before the Supreme Court granted Brown certiorari.
What is the Fifth Circuit?
This man co-founded Home Depot and established the Job Creators Network, a conservative advocacy group that bankrolled Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor's lawsuit. His group celebrated in Brown's aftermath.
Who is Bernie Marcus?
Finalized by the Biden administration after Brown's verdict, this new plan was launched in August 2023 to cut monthly payments from 10% to 5% of discretionary income, among other feats.
What is the SAVE Plan?
Based on Kelo v. New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), this 2017 movie starred Catherine Keener playing a small-town nurse from Connecticut trying to save her town from eminent domain.
What is Little Pink House?
A former Democratic congressman from California, he describes himself as “the chief architect” of the HEROES Act of 2003 and one of its co-sponsors.
Who is George Miller?
On this day in 2023, Biden v. Nebraska (2023) and Brown were orally argued in front of the Supreme Court.
What is February 28th?
On X, this then-GOP presidential candidate applauded Brown's verdict: "If you take out a loan, you pay it back. SCOTUS made the right decision on student loans."
Who is Senator Tim Scott (R-SC)?
In September 2022, a lawsuit was filed in the Eastern Missouri U.S. District Court challenging the forgiveness program on the grounds that it violated the separation of powers and this Act.
What is the APA (Administrative Procedure Act)?
Bill Watterson received two Rueben Awards for Best Cartoonist for producing this beloved strip.
What is Calvin and Hobbes?