Supreme Court Releases February Calendar: Biden Student Loan Flyer, Twitter, and Google on the Roll

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The Supreme Court has unveiled its February 2023 timetable that includes a case on President Biden’s proposed student loan begging, as well as cases on Twitter and Google, which represent some of the first opportunities for the high court to shape the power of the Big Tech.

On Tuesday, February 21, 2023, the Supreme Court will consider Gonzalez v. Google Inc. Then on Wednesday February 22, 2023, Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh. Both cases assess whether social media platforms can be held liable for aiding and abetting terrorism.

An overly expansive interpretation of liability for aiding and abetting, Columbia University legal experts warn, could prompt social media platforms to suspend First Amendment-protected speech for fear of legal liability.

In the first case, the legacy of Nohemi Gonzalez, a victim of the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, France, aims to hold Google accountable under the anti-terrorism law for recommending videos through its YouTube algorithms that were shared by the group terrorist ISIS.

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In challenging the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals filing of three damages claims, the plaintiffs allege that social media platforms allowed ISIS to post videos and other content to communicate its message, radicalize new recruits and further its mission, according to legal information website Justia. The plaintiffs also allege that Google placed paid advertisements in proximity to ISIS-created content and shared the resulting advertising revenue with ISIS.

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California on November 29, 2022. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

According to Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute, the lawsuit against Taamneh was filed by family members of Nawras Alassaf, a victim of the 2017 ISIS attack on a Turkish nightclub.

As they were unable to hold ISIS directly accountable, Alassaf’s relatives took legal action against Twitter, claiming that because ISIS used the platform to promote their beliefs and because Twitter knew that ISIS had done and had not intervened, Twitter had aided and abetted an act of international terrorism.

President Joe Biden speaks about his student loan handout as Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens on the White House campus on October 17, 2022. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, the Supreme Court will hear Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown, both cases involving Biden’s estimated $400 billion student debt relief plan first announced in August.

The plan aims to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year.

First case brought by six Republican-led states Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina challenges Biden’s invocation of a national emergency to forgive a portion of federal student loan debt as an abuse” illegal” of the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003.

The US Supreme Court (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The decades-old act came in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but Biden is linking it to the COVID-19 pandemic. States argue that Biden’s plan overrides the authority of the education secretary.

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The second case involves two borrowers who claim they were unfairly excluded from the program.

Dubin v. will also be heard. United States and New York v. New Jersey, both Monday February 27, 2023, and Abitron Austrai GMBH v. Hetronic Int. L, Inc. on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, as per the new calendar.

Danielle Wallace is a Fox News Digital reporter covering politics, crime, police and more. Story suggestions can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter: @danimwallace.

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