Biden Student Loan Plan Gets Blocked Again by Appeals Court (1)

A Biden Administration debt relief plan that could cancel billions in student loans was halted Friday by a federal appeals court.

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted a GOP-led state coalition’s request for the court to temporarily block the program while the US Education Department appeals a lower court ruling against the plan.

The Eight Circuit said in the per curiam opinion that the states showed “at least a fair chance” of success on the merits of their case, and irreparable harm without the temporary injunction. “The SAVE plan is even larger in scope than the ...