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☆ California authorities want to disbar John Eastman for trying to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

California legal authorities want to disbar John Eastman for trying to keep Donald Trump in power. Following Trump's loss in the 2020 election, Eastman, a former professor at the Chapman University School of Law, drafted legal memos that purported to offer avenues to keep him in office. The former law professor is one of many lawyers allied with Trump who has faced professional consequences for pursuing false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Giuliani has also been sued by election technology companies he implicated in false conspiracy theories about the election results, and has lost his ability to practice law in New York. Jeffrey Clark, a former Trump Administration Justice Department official who tried to overturn the election results, is also facing charges from the DC bar.

The California State Bar on Thursday charged John Eastman, an attorney closely allied with former President Donald Trump, with 11 disciplinary counts related to his alleged scheme to overturn President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election. The Office of Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona intends to seek Eastman's disbarment, according to a press release from the State Bar of California. Eastman is charged with making false statements about purported election fraud, including during a "stop the steal" rally outside the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. Eastman was the legal architect of one of several efforts to overturn Trump's loss to Biden. Pence, who presided over Congress' efforts to confirm Biden's victory on Jan. 6, 2021, refused to go along with that plan, despite pressure from Trump.

☆ Nearly 2,000 people flooded a federal website to oppose Biden's 'totally unjust' and 'completely illegal' student-loan forgiveness proposals
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Over a thousand people flooded the section with identical comments opposing debt relief. The comment begins: "My name is [NAME] and I am writing to oppose this regulation to 'cancel' student debt." Screenshot of a public comment opposing student-debt relief on the Federal Register. Republican lawmakers have long reiterated similar points to the comments opposing relief. But as Cardona wrote on Twitter on on Monday, the administration welcomes "the Supreme Court's decision to hear the case on our student debt relief plan.

☆ Live updates: Suspect in shooting at dance hall near Los Angeles is dead, sheriff says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Erick Mendoza | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Mirna-Alsharif-Byline-Jm.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +33 min

Share this -Link copiedAlhambra officials release statement on Monterey Park shooting Alhambra officials released a statement on the Monterey Park shooting early Sunday evening. Officials also acknowledged the shooting that occurred in the city after the Monterey Park shooting. Share this -Link copiedPolice release pictures to identify Monterey Park shooting suspect The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has released pictures seeking to identify the Monterey Park shooting suspect. Law enforcement has connected him to the Monterey Park shooting and a shooting minutes later in Alhambra. Patrons of the Alhambra dance hall wrestled a firearm away from a man about 20 minutes after the Monterey Park shooting.

☆ Meet a 52-year-old who has struggled to repay their $480,000 in student debt on income-driven plans and has pushed off retirement: 'This is an albatross around my neck for the rest of my life'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Angel, a 52-year-old student-loan borrower, has $480,000 in student debt. Their debt has surged due to payments on income-driven repayment plans and ballooning interest. Biden announced reforms to those repayment plans, but it's unclear how they will be implemented. "And I know that that's a concern for a lot of people I know with student loans." "If education is really about us being better contributors to society, then why are they charging interest on the student loans?"

☆ 2 for-profit companies want to stop $6 billion in student-loan forgiveness from reaching 200,000 borrowers in an already-approved settlement
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A judge signed off on a settlement last year giving 200,000 defrauded borrowers $6 billion in student-debt relief. A group of companies last week filed an appeals notice to stop the relief from going through. They argued their reputations will be harmed, and they were not given "due process" after being included in the settlement. In November, federal Judge William Alsup granted final approval of a lawsuit — Sweet v. Cardona — that would give over $6 billion in student-debt relief to 200,000 borrowers who were defrauded by a school they attended. Prior to his final ruling, Alsup gave schools the chance to intervene, but he ultimately rejected their arguments.

☆ What student-loan borrowers should know about Biden's new debt relief proposals — and why advocates argue they're not enough
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Biden proposed reforms to income-driven repayment plans for student-loan borrowers. "Today the Biden-Harris administration is proposing historic changes that would make student loan repayment more affordable and manageable than ever before," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. Here's what you need to know about these proposed reforms, and why some advocates are still pushing for further relief. This revision mean that the department will also be phasing out other versions of income-driven repayment plans. If you have a federal graduate or undergraduate student loan, who will be eligible for these reforms.

☆ Over a dozen groups just told the Supreme Court that a 'successful' return to student-loan repayment 'hinges' on upholding Biden's debt relief, the Education Secretary says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Over a dozen groups filed amicus briefs to SCOTUS supporting Biden's student-debt relief. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement that they reflect "the strength of our legal positions versus the fundamentally flawed lawsuits aimed at denying millions of working and middle-class borrowers debt relief." "As these diverse groups made clear today, student loan borrowers from all walks of life suffered profound financial harms during the pandemic and their continued recovery and successful repayment hinges on the Biden Administration's student debt relief plan," Cardona said. "We will continue to defend our legal authority to provide the debt relief working and middle-class families clearly need and deserve." One of the lawsuits was filed by six Republican-led states who sued because they said the debt relief would hurt their states' tax revenues, along with that of MOHELA.

☆ Feds propose ‘student loan safety net’ alongside forgiveness
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

President Joe Biden announced the repayment plan in August, but it was overshadowed by his sweeping plan to slash or eliminate student debt for 40 million Americans. Education Department officials on Tuesday called the new plan a “student loan safety net” that will prevent borrowers from getting overloaded with debt. “Student debt has become a dream killer,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said. The Education Department formally proposed the new repayment plan on Tuesday by publishing it in the Federal Register, starting a public comment period that often takes months to navigate. Even some on the left have questioned the prudence of the idea, saying it’s so generous that it effectively turns student loans into grants that don’t need to be repaid.

☆ Biden administration proposes new student loan repayment plan that could cut some payments in half
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The U.S. Department of Education proposed regulations Tuesday that would reduce the monthly bills for certain federal student loan borrowers. Currently, the most affordable income-driven repayment plan requires borrowers to pay 10% of their discretionary income each month to their student debt. Payment plans based on student loan borrowers' income date back to the mid '90s. They provide an alternative to the standard repayment plan that spreads debt obligations evenly over a decade, or 120 months. Income-based plans typically trade lower payments for a longer repayment timeline, with any remaining balance forgiven.

☆ Biden's Education Department just proposed a new way to make monthly student-loan payments 'more affordable and manageable than ever before'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Education Department unveiled additional details of its reformed income-driven repayment (IDR) plan. It would amend the REPAYE plan by cutting undergraduate student loan payments in half and prevent interest capitalization. One of those programs is the income-driven repayment (IDR) plan, which is intended to give borrowers affordable monthly payments based on their discretionary income with the promise of loan forgiveness after at least 20 years. "Today the Biden-Harris administration is proposing historic changes that would make student loan repayment more affordable and manageable than ever before," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. Rather than creating an entirely new plan, as a fact sheet said, the department will amend the Revised PayAs You Earn (REPAYE) plan, which was created in 2016 to calculate borrowers' monthly payments based on their discretionary income.

☆ A top Republican says Biden's proposals to make monthly student-loan payments cheaper are a 'backdoor' for his 'radical free college agenda'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Biden administration announced new regulations to improve income-driven repayment plans. The changes are meant to make payments cheaper, and "create faster pathways to forgiveness," according to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. Foxx has been an outspoken opponent of Biden's broad student loan forgiveness and other pandemic-era debt-relief measures. Under IDR, borrowers are meant to make monthly payments based on their incomes, with eventual loan forgiveness after at least 20 years of payments. "These plans will significantly cut monthly loan payments and it's part of a real transformation of the student loan system."

☆ Bernie Sanders calls out Trump pausing student-loan payments as a reason why Biden's debt relief plan is legal
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump used the HEROES Act to extend the student-loan payment pause in March 2020. Biden used the same law to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers, but that plan is held up in court. Sen. Sanders said Trump's past usage of the Act supports the legality of Biden's broad relief plan. "Let's be clear: If Trump had the authority to pause student debt payments, President Biden has the authority to cancel student debt," Sanders wrote on Twitter on Friday. "The Supreme Court must reject the Republicans' baseless lawsuits to take away student debt relief to 40 million Americans who desperately need it."

☆ Biden admin defends stalled student loan plan in Supreme Court brief
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Jan 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department late on Wednesday filed a brief with the Supreme Court defending President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan and arguing that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona had clear authority to provide the loan forgiveness. Biden announced in August that the U.S. government would forgive up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year, or $250,000 for married couples. Students who received Pell Grants to benefit lower-income college students would have up to $20,000 of their debt canceled under the plan, which has been on hold due to legal challenges. Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Andrea Shalal, editing by Dan WhitcombOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Biden's administration just filed a full legal defense of its student-loan forgiveness plan to the Supreme Court, saying the debt relief falls 'comfortably' within the law
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Justice Department filed a defense of Biden's student-debt relief to SCOTUS on Wednesday night. This filing comes ahead of February 28, when the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on the two lawsuits that have blocked the implementation of the debt relief. The other lawsuit was filed by two student-loan borrowers who sued because they did not qualify for the full $20,000 amount of relief. Another primary argument Biden's administration has pushed back on is the idea that the debt relief would harm MOHELA. The Justice Department argued MOHELA is a separate entity from Missouri and should not be considered alongside harms to the state.

WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department late on Wednesday filed a brief with the Supreme Court defending President Joe Biden's plan to cancel billions of dollars in federal student loans, arguing that two cases lacked standing to challenge the debt relief. Biden in August said the U.S. government would forgive up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year, or $250,000 for married couples. Students who received Pell Grants to benefit lower-income college students would have up to $20,000 of their debt canceled under the plan. In fact, the Justice Department said, the HEROES Act expressly exempted the department from notice and comment procedures. Over 16 million borrowers have already been approved for debt relief and millions more have applied.

☆ Elizabeth Warren calls for the Supreme Court to reject the 'baseless lawsuits' that blocked Biden's student-loan forgiveness from reaching 'millions of working people in need of relief'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for the Supreme Court to uphold Biden's student-debt relief. It followed the Justice Department filing a defense of the relief to SCOTUS on Wednesday night. On Wednesday night, the Justice Department filed its fulled legal defense of President Joe Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt to the Supreme Court, ahead of oral arguments beginning on February 28. "The Biden Justice Department has made clear to the U.S. Supreme Court that cancelling student debt is legal under the HEROES Act and critical to millions of working people in need of relief," Warren wrote on Twitter after the legal defense was filed on Wednesday. Biden's administration has not yet commented on what alternative routes, if any, it would pursue if the Supreme Court ends up striking down the relief, noting that its focus right now is the current and ongoing litigation.

☆ Travel ban lifted in Erie County as road conditions improve
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Claire Cardona | Claire Cardona Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In Texas. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

A travel ban has been lifted in New York’s Erie County, days after it was put into place as a deadly blizzard swept across the region, at times reducing visibility to zero. Though the ban has been lifted, a travel advisory was in place for Erie County as cleanup continues and a county-wide state of emergency remained. At least 76 people died in the storm, according to an NBC News tally. Erie County accounted for 37 of the deaths, 29 of which were in Buffalo. In Erie County, 17 of the people who died in the blizzard were found outside and four were in a vehicle, according to County Executive Mark Poloncarz.

Authorities have identified a 19-year-old man fatally shot Friday inside a department store in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, as Johntae Raymon Hudson. Hudson also told KARE 11 that when she learned her brother was shot, she held out hope he would survive. Several members of the New York Giants, who faced off against the Minnesota Vikings on Saturday, were in the Mall of America when the shooting occurred. The mall told the station then that it was testing options “that may allow us to further enhance” security systems. Earlier this year, a man fired three shots in front of a store in the mall, KARE 11 reported.

☆ How 10 student-loan borrowers are coping with the highs and lows of Biden's debt relief announcement
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Biden announced up to $20,000 in student-debt relief at the end of August. Since then, two lawsuits have blocked the plan, and its fate rests with the Supreme Court. Here are 10 borrowers' stories on what they have experienced since Biden's August announcement. Since the loan forgiveness had an income cap, the Education Department was unable to automatically cancel the debt and needed until October to make an online application available for borrowers. Conservative groups used that time to file lawsuits to block the relief, and Biden's administration responding by further narrowing the eligibility for the relief to exclude some borrowers with privately-held loans to avoid litigation.

☆ Over 50 hospitalized after Christmas Eve bus crash in British Columbia
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-25 | by ( Claire Cardona | Claire Cardona Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In Texas. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Dozens of people were taken to hospital late Christmas Eve after a bus accident on a British Columbia highway, Canadian officials said. Medical teams were receiving 53 patients at three hospitals in the cities of Kelowna, Penticton and Merritt, Interior Health said on Twitter late Saturday. Their conditions were not immediately available, but British Columbia’s Interior Health Authority said on its Twitter feed that it had initiated a “Code Orange” response to the accident. “We will make every effort to connect families with patients as soon as possible,” the authority tweeted. A portion of both directions of Highway 97C was closed because of the accident.

Winter storm death toll rises to 17Authorities have reported four additional weather-related deaths, bringing the number of people who have died in the winter storm to 17. Kansas Highway Patrol said Friday that three fatal crashes occurred Wednesday and were all thought to be weather-related. The driver of the other vehicle was uninjured, according to Highway Patrol. His truck was then hit by two other vehicles and came to rest 80 feet down an embankment, Highway Patrol said. The 16-year-old driver had a minor injury, according to Highway Patrol.

☆ 19-year-old killed in shooting at Nordstrom in Mall of America, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Claire Cardona | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A 19-year-old man was killed Friday night in a shooting at a store in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, police said. "They’re in pain, and rightfully so, and for something that should not have happened," Hodges said. The shooting happened shortly before 8 p.m., and the mall was placed on lockdown. A bystander's coat was grazed by a bullet but no other injuries were reported, Hodges said. The mall told the station then that it was testing options "that may allow us to further enhance" security systems.

☆ 19-year-old killed in shooting at Nordstrom in Minneapolis' Mall of America
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Claire Cardona | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A 19-year-old man was killed Friday night in a shooting at a store in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minneapolis, police said. "They’re in pain, and rightfully so, and for something that should not have happened," Hodges said. The shooting happened shortly before 8 p.m., and the mall was placed on lockdown. A bystander's coat was grazed by a bullet but no other injuries were reported, Hodges said. The mall told the station then that it was testing options "that may allow us to further enhance" security systems.

Bankman-Fried left the courthouse, surrounded by guards with assault weapons, and entered a vehicle, according to Reuters Video. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Bahamas said in a statement that the foreign minister had signed off on allowing Bankman-Fried's extradition to the United States. Bankman-Fried was arrested on a U.S. extradition request last week in The Bahamas, where he lives and where FTX is based. [1/10] Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto currency exchange FTX, is escorted out of the Magistrate Court building in Nassau, Bahamas December 21, 2022. This rule, which is in The Bahamas’ extradition treaty with the United States, says a person can be tried only on the charges for which they are extradited.

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