Harvard lawyer on Betsy DeVos' Corinthian loans court violation: I've never seen such flouting of the laws by a public official before

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The lawyer representing defrauded students told Newsweek a U.S. magistrate judge is unlikely to follow through on her threat of jail time but argued that the education secretary's actions constitute 'extraordinary noncompliance.'

, Devos and the Education Department have continued to chase the former students to pay their debts, contacting upwards of 16,000 former students and deducting funds from at least 1,800 people, according to court filings., Harvard lawyer Toby Merrill called the education secretary's actions"truly unbelievable."

"Not only has the Department of Education over and over refused to do its job and discharge the loans, but it has also refused to just follow the basic laws of the court," Merrill said."It really takes the cake. It's far beyond what I've seen before." Following the hearing on Monday, lawyers for DeVos and the Department of Education were told they have until October 21 to file the relevant briefings if they wished to argue that contempt of court was not warranted in this case. Merrill and her team will then have an additional seven days to respond.

 

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JuddApatow Lock her up. Lock her up. Lock her up.

JuddApatow never? Really? Like..not even recently? Has this Harvard Lawyer spent the last 3 years in a coma or something?

Lock her up

JuddApatow She does not serve the public interests.

JuddApatow LockHerUp

JuddApatow Put her in jail then

Arriadna She is incompetent and barely educated. Her flouting is probably no more than idiocy, the inability to understand her job, and flat-out indifference to the people her policies affect. Ignorance is no defense, I know, but frankly she is a stupid disaster.

Corrupt Administration every Cabinet has issues. In my life time just one of the Secretaries would have been weeks worth of news. That is their strategy. Do it out loud and proud the lot of them. No matter your politics we have to clean this up.

DeVos is just another wealthy destructionist who has no business in government. She is a privileged white woman without educational administrative experience. She’s blinded by her view from the tower.

DeVos should be required to personally pay off every one of these loans entirely AND do jail time.

How about Trump 🤪

Lock her up

I guess this Harvard lawyer never met the president

MOST OF TRUMP'S APPOINTMENTS AT GREEDY, CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT AND NOT QUALIFIED. HOWEVER THEY MADE HUGE DONATIONS TO HIS CAMPAIGN. SOOOOO.

lol, look at Trump

Another of trumps BEST PEOPLE? Another unqualified swamp rat ripping off the taxpayers more like.

fishing_rod8 Someone show this judge the Mueller report

The Trump WH should have a banner on the gates which reads: Corruption R Us...🤦🏻‍♂️

the secretary of education needs to be taught a lesson, literally, regardless of the reimbursement, lock her up!

Shame. This lady wouldn’t know what it’s like to live without the luxuries she takes for granted.

Fake news!

Sadly, not too shocking as she’s another corrupt Trump appointee.

GailSte86467885 Pretty please can we lock her up?

lockupBetsy

Is he new?

She needs to be put in Prison!

She has lots of money. It's the only reason she occupies the chair. I wouldn't let her spell check a third graders book report.

Wow, you might not be digging aggressively enough. She is the TIP of the iceberg.

Lock her up! Lock her up!

LOCK HER UP

Well...um...Trump...

Have you heard of this place called The White House?

Nothing like having a clueless person run education.

Really? Don’t have to look very far to see that the apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree (realDonaldTrump). swampmonsters liars corruption

The rich operate by a different set of rules and laws, or so they think (and so the legal system treats them).

She should be locked up.

She'd have to know the laws to flout them.

As a school teacher, both having taught in the private and public sector, this woman is an absolute disgrace every student and educator in this country. Every school she went to, she left running from protesters. She was unfit from day one. CorruptGOP

How are these people still in these positions ?

Apparently he hasn’t been watching punkassbitch realDonaldTrump

Oh REALLY? You have the ENTIRE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION for examples.

Lock her up!

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