Federal judge declares Biden's student debt relief plan unlawful

A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated.

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump in Fort Worth, called the program an “unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power” as he ruled in favor of two borrowers backed by a conservative advocacy group.

The debt relief plan had already been temporarily blocked by the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while it considers a request by six Republican-led states to enjoin it while they appealed the dismissal of their own lawsuit.

President Biden’s student debt relief program on pauseOct. 22, 202201:50The judge’s ruling came in a lawsuit by two borrowers who were partially or fully ineligible for the loan forgiveness Biden’s plan offered. The plaintiffs argued it did not follow proper rulemaking processes and was unlawful.

The borrowers were backed by the Job Creators Network Foundation, a conservative advocacy group founded by Bernie Marcus, a co-founder of Home Depot.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/federal-judge-declares-bidens-student-debt-relief-plan-unlawful-rcna56702


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