President Biden defeated Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Democratic primary by running as a centrist. But you wouldn’t know it by the way the Massachusetts Senator is seeding her proteges and allies throughout the administrative state. She has far more sway than Vice President Kamala Harris.
Start with the Education Department. Last week President Biden appointed Toby Merrill, who founded the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School, as deputy general counsel. Ms. Merrill wrote a memo to Ms. Warren arguing that the President has the authority under the Higher Education Act to cancel student debt without approval …
