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The Texas-based federal stay on the Biden administration's student debt relief program has now become a federal appeals court injunction.

 

A federal appeals court Monday issued a nationwide injunction temporarily barring the Biden administration’s student loan debt relief program.

The ruling by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis is the latest in a series of legal challenges to President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for millions of Americans. The Biden administration stopped accepting applications for its relief on Friday after a federal district judge in Texas struck down its plan Thursday evening, calling it “unconstitutional.”


Monday’s decision by the appeals court came after six GOP-led states argued in a lawsuit that the loan relief program threatens their future tax revenues and that the plan circumvents congressional authority.

“The injunction will remain in effect until further order of this court or the Supreme Court of the United States,” a three-judge panel of the appeals court said in its ruling.

The injunction will put the program on hold pending an appeal of a lower court ruling that had allowed the debt relief program to go forward. The Biden administration could ask the Supreme Court to lift the injunction.

“We are confident in our legal authority for the student debt relief program and believe it is necessary to help borrowers most in need as they recover from the pandemic,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “The Administration will continue to fight these baseless lawsuits by Republican officials and special interests and will never stop fighting to support working and middle class Americans.”

 

Well, the last major Roberts Court ruling kinda cost the GOP the Senate and maybe the House still, but again, These guys play the long game, and the long game is to make Americans miserable serfs who turn to the GOP to try to fight for what table scraps the billionaires allow us.

 

I expect this to die in front of the six Supreme Court conservatives like a lot of other things over the next seven months and change.