In the majority opinion's conclusion, the chief justice (Roberts) defended the Supreme Court amid a new wave of disingenuous attacks from President Biden, congressional Democrats, and leftist activists:
It has become a disturbing feature of some recent opinions to criticize the decisions with which they disagree as going beyond the proper role of the judiciary. Today, we have concluded that an instrumentality created by Missouri, governed by Missouri, and answerable to Missouri is indeed part of Missouri; that the words “waive or modify” do not mean “completely rewrite”; and that our precedent, old and new, requires that Congress speak clearly before a Department Secretary can unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy. We have employed the traditional tools of judicial decision making in doing so. Reasonable minds may disagree with our analysis, in fact, at least three do... We do not mistake this plainly heartfelt disagreement for disparagement. It is important that the public not be misled either. Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country.
The Court's decision on Friday should be unsurprising to Democrats, especially President Biden: he, along with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) previously made statements that acknowledged the federal government lacks the authority to erase student debt by passing the costs around to all taxpayers.
Several of President Biden's other policies have faced similar fates before the highest court in the land, with his vaccine mandate for private employers, his eviction moratorium, and his EPA policy seeking to regulate carbon emissions from power plants all being struck down by the Supreme Court.
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