Court Blocks Joe Biden!

A United States Appeals court has temporarily blocked Biden’s billion-dollar student loan forgiveness plan.

On Friday the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency block on Biden’s student forgiveness loan.

The Court will continue to block Biden’s plan until the Court rules on a motion from six Republican-led states which is aiming to block the student loan cancellation program.

As of now, any application that was filled out to obtain student loan forgiveness has been postponed until the court rules on the appeal.

A U.S. federal appeals court temporarily blocked Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness program from continuing following an appeal from 6 Republican-led states.https://t.co/qwdO9hwhkY

— REVOLT (@revolttv) October 22, 2022

U.S. District Court Judge Henry Autrey of the Eastern District of Missouri denied a request from Nebraska and 5 other states for a temporary stay of the student loan forgiveness program while the appeal is heard. pic.twitter.com/OT23Ies3P9

— Chris Dunker (@ChrisDunkerLJS) October 21, 2022

Reuters had more details to add:

A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel billions of dollars in college student debt, one day after a judge dismissed a Republican-led lawsuit by six states challenging the loan-forgiveness program.

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.

A George W. Bush appointee dismisses bid by six Republican-led states to block student debt cancellation

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— Tara Golshan (@taragolshan) October 21, 2022

Fox News had these details to add:

A federal appeals court late Friday issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel billions of dollars in federal student loans.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued the stay while it considers a motion from six Republican-led states to block the loan cancellation program. The stay ordered the Biden administration not to act on the program while it considers the appeal. The stay was issued just one day after another federal judge dismissed an effort by six Republican-led states to block the plan.

U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey in St. Louis wrote that because the six states — Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina — failed to establish they had standing, “the Court lacks jurisdiction to hear this case.”

Also on Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected an appeal from a Wisconsin taxpayers group that was seeking to stop the program.

It’s unclear what the decision means for the 22 million borrowers who already applied for the relief. The Biden administration had promised not to clear any debt before Oct. 23 as it battled the legal challenges, but the soonest it was expected to begin erasing debt was mid-November.