…”It would be difficult to predict how the Justices would rule on something as tricky as standing, especially given that each of the relevant States presents different theories about how they are injured,” Sheng Li, an attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance who authored an amicus brief challenging the debt relief program, wrote Newsweek in an email. “Justice Barret twice turned away (in Brown County and Garrison) requests for Supreme Court review of student-loan cases that were dismissed for lack of standing. In other words, her likely views on the merits of the student-loan cancellation policy did not affect her conclusion on the need for standing.”…

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