Sonia Sotomayor
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
  • SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned efforts to gut the Biden student-loan forgiveness plan Tuesday.
  • Sotomayor was among a few justices pushing back on common GOP arguments on the "fairness" of the program.
  • Sotomayor was joined by justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Amy Coney Barrett in scrutinizing the cases' standing to sue.

Liberal US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor brushed aside conservative arguments against President Joe Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan on Tuesday, urging the justices to think about the tens of millions of affected students.