“In Biden v. Nebraska, the court in a decision released Friday rejected Biden’s $400 billion student debt forgiveness plan.”
This was, by far, the most egregious as the Conservative Majority literally said that Biden could not take advantage of Congressional law. They went on to lie about language:
“Instead, ‘modify’ carries ‘a connotation of increment or limitation,’ and must be read to mean ‘to change moderately or in minor fashion’”
Holy fuck!!!
https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/31051/SCOTUS_Blocks_Biden_s_Student_Loan_Debt_Cancellation_Program
Why this is a problem if you aren’t big on English or grammar or law: connotation is what people think a word means, denigration is what the word ACTUALLY means.
Our laws and lawyers work with denotation: because attempting to corral what people THINK a word means is rife with failure. That’s why lawyers have to be incredibly precise in the use of language and grammar.
SCOTUS just said, fuck that, we’ll interpret the words how we want.
What they said effectively in this ruling is they get to interpret words how they want — even to the point of REDEFINING THEM.
Making partial changes DOES NOT MEAN ONLY making minor changes. I can modify a BBQ recipe to not use meat, for example.
@feloneouscat
that's their basic approach to language. doublespeak, Alice's caterpillar style.