A federal appeals court has blocked Biden’s Ivy League debt bailout and midterm bribe program from going into effect late Friday, just hours after Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett dismissed one of the several challenges to the plan.
Justice Barrett handles emergency requests that come from Wisconsin, where the group filing it is based. Turning down an emergency requests should NOT be construed as ruling on the merits of that or any legal challenge to the un-Constitutional plan Biden threw out in order to buy votes.
The Appeals court’s decision was a temporary stay – sort of like the intended outcome of the request for emergency injunction sought by the Wisconsin group — which holds the plan from being implemented while challenges are heard and resolved in courts.
Fromm Reuters:
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay barring the discharge of any student debt under the program until the court rules on the states’ request for a longer-term injunction while Thursday’s decision against them is appealed.
The St. Louis-based appeals court also ordered an expedited briefing schedule on the matter.
U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey in St. Louis ruled on Thursday that while the six Republican-led states had raised “important and significant challenges to the debt relief plan,” he threw out their lawsuit on grounds they lacked the necessary legal standing to pursue the case.
Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina said Biden’s plan skirted congressional authority and threatened the states’ future tax revenues and money earned by state entities that invest in or service the student loans.
The expedited schedule means there will arguments on Monday and Tuesday.
Karine Jean Pierre issued a statement saying that “Tonight’s temporary order does not prevent borrowers from applying for student debt relief at studentaid.gov – and we encourage eligible borrowers to join the nearly 22 million Americans whose information the Department of Education already has. It also does not prevent us from reviewing these applications and preparing them for transmission to loan servicers.”
Big confidence! But she’s got no reason for it. This could go either way.
The challenge is a good one and has compelling reasoning on behalf of the states, but that’s of course no indicator of whether it will succeed in our court system.
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