Supreme Court to hear GOP state challenge to pandemic-related Biden student loan debt relief plan
Fox News
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday pertaining to GOP-led states aiming to block President Biden's student debt forgiveness plan.
A coalition of six GOP-led states — Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina — wants to block the federal debt forgiveness plan, calling it an executive branch overreach absent any clear congressional mandate. They are supported by 17 other states, more than 170 Republican members of Congress and a range of conservative advocacy groups.
But the Biden administration, with the backing of 21 Democrat-led states and the District of Columbia, says the upcoming end of emergency declarations does not change what it calls the "legal justification" for extending the student loan plan, arguing, without it, the financial pain for millions will extend far beyond COVID's demise.