I think it just has to stem from an emergency, not during a declared emergency. Even so, this is a power Congress delegated to the executive branch.

So they wouldn’t likely having standing to sue

They’d likely lose in court since it is specifically a power delegated to the Secretary of Education by an act of Congress.

It’d put pressure on the Republican candidate. Are they going to campaign on resuming payments on 40 million people?

Aren’t they serviced by a publicly traded company? I imagine investors there aren’t too happy, but I don’t know the financial situation there.

The smart political move would be to keep them paused in the event of an adverse ruling by SCOTUS and tell Congress to address the issue. From my understanding the Supreme Court is only ruling on the cancellation of student loans not the pause in payments.

The big lenders probably have a bunch of sway in the WH so your scenario is infinitely more likely.

Wonder why no subsequent President raised it since though

Was he against increasing the number of House seats?

I think Rhode Island just took this crown from Montana and based on the latest census data from last July:

Rhode Island: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/RI

Montana: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/MT

Rhode Island has about 30,000 fewer people than Montana.

The 2020 census conducted by the Trump administration was very inaccurate and the Biden administration has had to go back and fix the numbers in the new 2022 revisions.

The Rhode Island census was actually egregiously over counted by Trump officials

https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/ri-overcounted-population-in-2020-census-federal-study-finds/

If Rhode Island has less people than Montana and both have two U.S. House reps wouldn’t Rhode Island be the more over-over represented state?

The easiest way to combat this would be to increase the number of representatives in The House. Congress hasn’t increased it from 435 for over 110 years even though the country as a whole has nearly quadrupled in population in the same time.

One way to do this would be to have the number of representatives correspond to the least populous state. Taking the population of the US in 2020 divided by the population of Wyoming in 2020 would give us 575 members. This would lessen the disparity highlighted on this graph.

This would take an act of Congress to do and not even an amendment to The U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately Congress is controlled by power hungry members and this would dilute their power so it won’t get passed anytime soon.

This posted yesterday seems to suggest that it’s Rhode Island and not Montana that is the most over represented.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/104fd75/oc_the_number_of_representatives_in_the_us/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Unless these are completely different things and I’m mistaken.