--- title: Students Protest as Supreme Court Weighs Biden Student Loan Plan | TIME description: Protesters gathered outside the U.S.The Supreme Court as the high court began hearing arguments in a partisan legal fight over President Joe Biden's plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans. The high court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, heard arguments on Tuesday in two challenges to the plan, which has so far been blocked by Republican-appointed judges on lower courts. canonical: https://time.com/video/d6hsRtzh/ og:title: Students Protest as Supreme Court Weighs Biden Student Loan Plan og:description: Protesters gathered outside the U.S.The Supreme Court as the high court began hearing arguments in a partisan legal fight over President Joe Biden's plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Students Protest as Supreme Court Weighs Biden Student Loan Plan [Watch (HLS stream): Students Protest as Supreme Court Weighs Biden Student Loan Plan](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/d6hsRtzh.m3u8) (2:25)  _Published 2023-02-28. Protesters gathered outside the U.S.The Supreme Court as the high court began hearing arguments in a partisan legal fight over President Joe Biden's plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans. The high court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, heard arguments on Tuesday in two challenges to the plan, which has so far been blocked by Republican-appointed judges on lower courts._ --- Oct 12, 2023 9:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down Challenge to Abortion Drug Mifepristone](/video/Dzk4IIPq/) ### Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down Challenge to Abortion Drug Mifepristone [Student Borrowers Speak Out After Supreme Court Strikes Down Student Loan Relief](/video/97oLJ1d5/) ### Student Borrowers Speak Out After Supreme Court Strikes Down Student Loan Relief [Biden Slams Supreme Court Ruling Against Race-Based Affirmative Action](/video/eb8LXIhN/) ### Biden Slams Supreme Court Ruling Against Race-Based Affirmative Action --- ## Transcript Student that has got to go make some noise. We're here, lobbying and talking to lawmakers about higher education, affordability, and mental health and will be found out that the Supreme Court today was going to be hearing arguments about in debt relief. We felt like we had to make our presence here, had to show solidarity with everybody that you know, this affect us in college and even if you want to pursue higher education, that is something that is going to weigh it down and not let us know. Prosper in life as we continue, For me, it's going to mean more than just. My vacation is going to be more to my parents who are honestly were quite scared. What I wanted to go to UT Austin. They felt like it was unaffordable but student loans have really helped me at least, you know, being a low-income students helped me and classes for myself out there be involved in organizations, like Student Government insulation, the education for college students. Now it's significantly more than it was at that time. I think that's similar to a lot of them were able to pursue higher education and be able to get a career. And I feel that they're passionate about. I think that we should be afforded that they wanted a wild horse ale because of the high rate of tuition as a result of her covid. Incubation. It's just really important that we also have the ability to pursue higher education and get to Green. I think that and better educated populace is better for everyone. So I don't understand why you wouldn't want to Grant educational freedom to as many Americans as possible. Young people are the future as we all know and I think it's very important to empower them financially and academically in order to achieve all their dreams to remember their people are young people who simply don't have even the generational wealth don't have, the means don't have the resources to pay their college in full, debt-free and as the cost of college continues to outpace inflation, Circle that supported given to those people don't have, the means to repay their debt right away. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Students Protest as Supreme Court Weighs Biden Student Loan Plan","description":"Protesters gathered outside the U.S.The Supreme Court as the high court began hearing arguments in a partisan legal fight over President Joe Biden's plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans.\n\nThe high court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, heard arguments on Tuesday in two challenges to the plan, which has so far been blocked by Republican-appointed judges on lower courts.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/d6hsRtzh/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-02-28T22:17:49.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/d6hsRtzh.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/d6hsRtzh/","duration":"PT2M25S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/d6hsRtzh/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```