States Ask High Court to Stop Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan

July 9, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

A small group of Republican-led states want the US Supreme Court to step in and block President Joe Biden’s second attempt to forgive billions of dollars in student loan debt.

In an emergency request addressed to Justice Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday, Texas, South Carolina, and Alaska asked the court to toss out a lower court order that paves the way for the Education Department to lower loan payments along with canceling student debt under a new rule beginning Aug. 1.

As the justice assigned to the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which issued the order the states ...

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