‘“It’s so draconian,” Connor said of proposals to limit or repeal borrower defense. “It would put student-loan borrowers in a worse place than any other kind of borrower, and it’s such an odd thing to do in the context of a lending program that is both meant to facilitate an educated workforce and populace, but also where the loans are the device of access that we’ve settled on.”’

“The reason the administration wanted the Supreme Court to look at the case is because it’s fundamentally wrong and stripping away a critical protection for students that Congress inarguably authorized,” Eileen Connor, the president of PPSL said in an interview on Friday. “I hope this will be an opportunity to correct the 5th Circuit.”

“The U.S. Supreme Court is set to weigh in on a student loan debt forgiveness policy that allowed the Biden administration to forgive $17 billion, according to Politico.”

“Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which represents borrowers defrauded by their colleges, noted that the first Trump administration processed debt relief approved by the Obama administration.”

“Instead, it fell to the Debt Collective, the Project on Predatory Student Lending, and defrauded students themselves to find eligible borrowers in a piecemeal fashion and organize them to fight for their rights.”

“We don’t think that can be clawed back under the law. We don’t think it should be clawed back, of course, but we’re ready to defend those discharges,” said Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which represents borrowers defrauded by their colleges.