Amy Coney Barrett uses bizarre analogy of babysitter and amusement park in student loan opinion

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was one of the conservative justices who struck down Biden's loan forgiveness plan, but her explanation as to why included talk of babysitters and amusement parks left some people scratching their heads in confusion.

Barrett used the opinion, which ruled that the Biden administration didn't have the authority to authorize the forgiveness, to push for the "major questions doctrine," according to CNN.

"The so-called major questions doctrine says that executive branch agencies only have authority to take aggressive unilateral action of significant political or economic importance if Congress explicitly gives it such power," the news network reported. "The Supreme Court’s use of the major questions doctrine to throw out Biden’s loan forgiveness program struck a nerve that went beyond educational policy – with the conservative justices and liberal justices sparring over how the controversial legal theory that has been used, with increasing frequency, to strike down unilateral acts of executive branch authority."

In order to explain how this particular legal theory comes into play with student loans, Barrett took us all back to elementary school with a unique analogy about a babysitter spending the parents' money on kids she's watching.

According to CNN's report:

"A second hypothetical centered on a babysitter who took the kids to an amusement park for the weekend, having been given a parent’s credit card and told: 'Make sure the kids have fun,'" CNN reported. "Emboldened, the concurring babysitter takes the kids on a road trip to an amusement park, where they spend two days on rollercoasters and one night in a hotel."

This, Barrett suggests, is the equivalent of the government cancelling those student loans. Because the law didn't give explicit authority to do so, she reasons, it would be unreasonable to assume it has that power.