Ocasio-Cortez said the court's recent rulings — striking down race-based admissions and Biden's student loan forgiveness plan — 'signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power.' AOC accuses SCOTUS of 'dangerous' power grab:
— "signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power in the court."
"They are expanding their role into acting as though they are Congress itself and that, I believe, is an expansion of power that we really must be focusing on," Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, said. The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Congress had not intended to authorize Biden's debt relief plan under a 2003 measure known as the HEROES Act. But Ocasio-Cortez said that authorization for the plan could be found in another law passed by Congress, the Higher Education Act.
She also urged her fellow members of Congress to step up their oversight of the nation's highest court, citing the revelation that members such as
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