Current Events > Biden is teaming up with DeVos to fight students who were scamed.

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he Biden administration is backing former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as she tries to avoid having to testify in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administrations lengthy delays and sweeping denials of student loan forgiveness claims.
The Justice Department joined with DeVos on Monday to fight a subpoena seeking her deposition as part of a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of some 160,000 former for-profit college students seeking loan forgiveness on the grounds that they were defrauded.
DeVos is no longer the defendant in the lawsuit since she resigned from office Jan. 7 in the wake of the Capitol riots. But lawyers for the student borrowers say they need her testimony to get to the bottom of why her agency for years slow-walked the loan forgiveness claims and then began churning out denial letters with little explanation.
Democrats for four years slammed DeVos handling of student loan forgiveness for defrauded borrowers under a program known as borrower defense to repayment. President Joe Biden has vowed to reverse DeVos approach and restore Obama-era policies that were designed to more easily relieve the debts of students who were misled or cheated by their college.
But the Justice Department under the Biden administration is now coming to DeVos defense in the lawsuit, teaming up with her personal attorney this week to fight the subpoena compelling her testimony.
Plaintiffs demand for a former Cabinet officials deposition is extraordinary, unnecessary, and unsupported, DeVos personal attorney and Justice Department lawyers wrote in a joint court filing on Monday. It is a transparent attempt at harassment part of a PR campaign that has been central to Plaintiffs litigation strategy from the outset.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. DeVos personal attorney in the case is Jesse Panuccio, who was the No. 3 official at the Justice Department during the Trump administration and is now a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner. He declined to comment on Tuesday.
The motion to block the subpoena was signed by Panuccio and Brian Boynton, who recently became acting assistant attorney general in the Biden administration. It was filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, which is where DeVos is a part-time resident, according to the filing.
A footnote in the filing says that DOJ is representing DeVos in her capacity as former U.S. Secretary of Education and pursuant to DOJs representation of the U.S. Department of Education in the underlying litigation.
The student loan borrowers are represented by Housing and Economic Rights Advocates and Harvard Law Schools Project on Predatory Student Lending, which successfully sued to block a range of DeVos higher education policies throughout the Trump administration.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/10/biden-devos-loan-forgiveness-468375

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So tell me how is this really a good thing ?


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Bender: Well, everybody, I just saved a turtle. What have you done with your lives?


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The justice department is doing this, where in this is Biden putting pressure, unless your argument is Biden appointed this person in order to protect Betsy?

Dont we want the president to not be involved in the justice department?

She's American royalty. Not surprised something like this would happen with Biden admin being centrist.

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Just relax and let it happen because theres going to be plenty of it. Democrats absolutely hate any sort of conflict that can be avoided

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Dems might get creamed in the 22.

From playing semantics with the 2K checks to this. The young voters that pushed you thru .. to fuck off.

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First scammed, now beaten up by Biden!? Damn what a life

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Why the fuck is the Justice Dept obligated to defend that disgusting hag against people defrauded by ponzi schemes when she resigned?

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I went to one of these schools and they took a lot of money from me.That is one the reason I am so upset about this. I went to one of the schools because Bill Clinton was a speaker then and that gave me the conference that the school was legit. Just wanted to let that off my chest .

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cjsdowg posted...

I went to one of the schools because Bill Clinton was a speaker then and that gave me the conference that the school was legit. Just wanted to let that off my chest .

"You fucked up. You trusted us!"

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Biden is uniting us and flattening the curve.

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