Student Loan Cases Give Supreme Court Path to Cut Biden’s Power

Two challenges this week to President Biden’s student-debt forgiveness plan give the Supreme Court a fresh chance to unravel his agenda and drastically weaken future presidents’ authority in areas beyond higher education.

The justices on Tuesday are set to hear arguments in cases that primarily focus on whether the administration has the power to unilaterally forgive student debt for as many as 40 million borrowers. But within those cases, the high court is being asked to limit how federal agencies spend tax dollars and dilute the president’s ability to direct changes across the executive branch.

Conservatives hope the right-leaning ...