Nebraska has challenged President Biden’s unilateral and unlawful discharge of hundreds of billions of dollars in student-loan debt. At stake is more than the $430 billion hole Mr. Biden’s plan would blow in the federal budget. “No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power,” Thomas Paine wrote in 1776. The Founders realized the danger of vesting absolute power in one branch of government, and so they divided power into three branches. Legislation is passed in Congress, where a large and diverse nation’s elected representatives weigh in.

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