"The Trump administration's ongoing war on the legal profession continues with the Department of Education releasing its finalized Public Service Loan Forgiveness rule - a process kicked off in March when Trump issued his Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness Executive Order - and while its impact will be felt across education, the new rule is especially brutal for law school graduates, with the DOE cutting off forgiveness to those causes it deems to be supporting "illegal activity.""
"a reasonable premise if directed at graduates aspiring to become a mob consigliere. As it happens, that's not the sort of "illegal activity" Kent's talking about. "The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program was meant to support Americans who dedicate their careers to public service - not to subsidize organizations that violate the law, whether by harboring illegal immigrants or performing prohibited medical procedures that attempt to transition children away from their biological sex.""
The Department of Education finalized a Public Service Loan Forgiveness rule that restricts forgiveness for employers and causes deemed to support "illegal activity." The rule is likely to hit law school graduates particularly hard by cutting off forgiveness for many public-interest legal roles. The rule frames activities such as representing immigrants and providing services related to transgender care as potential bases for exclusion. Under Secretary Nicholas Kent justified the restriction by saying taxpayer funds should not subsidize illegal activity. The rule's language could extend beyond medical contexts to cover legal organizations that assist trans people.
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