Biden Administration’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Allowed to Proceed as Judge Declines to Renew Block

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The judge transferred the case to the Eastern District of Missouri, where Missouri’s claims will continue to be heard.

The Biden administration’s latest student loan forgiveness plan can now proceed, after a federal judge declined to renew a temporary restraining order that had blocked the program. The judge also dismissed part of the lawsuit challenging the initiative in Georgia and transferred the case to Missouri.

U.S. District Judge J. Randal Hall, who issued the initial restraining order on Sept. 5, preventing the Department of Education from implementing the student loan forgiveness plan, issued an order on Oct. 2 that does not extend the freeze past its scheduled Oct. 3 expiration date.

This decision permits the Biden administration to move forward with its student loan forgiveness efforts while the legal battle continues.

The judge also dismissed the state of Georgia from the lawsuit, citing a lack of standing. The case, originally brought by a coalition of seven Republican-led states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Dakota, and Ohio, challenges the legality of the Biden administration’s debt cancellation program. However, the judge determined that Georgia’s claims of financial harm were speculative and self-inflicted, based on how its state tax laws are linked to federal tax policy.

In his ruling, the judge explained that Georgia had failed to demonstrate the kind of concrete injury required to proceed with the lawsuit, stating that any potential loss of tax revenue resulting from the loan forgiveness plan was “too speculative” and the result of decisions made by the state’s own legislature.

“Any alleged injury that may result from a loss of state income-tax revenue was self-inflicted by Georgia’s laws and is insufficient to establish standing,” Hall wrote.

With Georgia dismissed, the judge transferred the case to the Eastern District of Missouri, where Missouri’s claims will continue to be heard. The judge found that Missouri, which houses the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri, has a more direct stake in the outcome of the lawsuit, as loan services could suffer financial harm due to the loan cancellations.

The Epoch Times has reached out to the Georgia Attorney General’s office with a request for comment on the ruling.

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