A federal judge in Missouri put a temporary hold on President Joe Biden’s latest student loan cancellation plan on Thursday, slamming the door on hope it would move forward after another judge allowed a pause to expire.
Just as it briefly appeared the Biden administration would have a window to push its plan forward, U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp in Missouri granted an injunction blocking any widespread cancellation.
The judicial branch is waging war on the executive branch. Federal student loans are entirely within the jurisdiction of the department of education and the law gives them unambiguous authority of discretion with how the program is run.
Six Republican-led states requested the injunction hours earlier
republican hate the people
Easy solution: don’t cancel debt for people who live in those states. Say the Republicans blocked it. Move forward with everyone else.
Yep, state rights! They want the states to decide, ok they decided. Now cancel my debt, I don’t live in those states.
And then encourage people with useful degrees to move to states which will cancel the debt.
I was in the process of applying for the SAVE program when it was blocked. I don’t know why or how but this put my payments on hold for another year. Not as good as paying it off, but still a huge help.
I was automatically enrolled in it a while back because I’m on income-based repayments, and they just keep delaying even recertification. I haven’t had to do shit with my account in years. It’s really nice honestly, because I don’t intend to repay it (I’ve never made enough to warrant a payment, under the income based plan… so fuck ‘em)
I’m super glad you got into the infinite loop of stalling too! :) everyone should apply, when they can!
Basically, if I understand right, they are choosing to do nothing rather than fuck it all up and collect what they shouldn’t, which they would then have to credit.
