A day after a previous judge’s block of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program expired, a federal judge in Missouri has blocked it again.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp, who was appointed by then-President Donald Trump, issued the latest preliminary injunction against Biden’s relief plan, once again blocking the U.S. Department of Education from forgiving student loan debt at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.
The latest order capped 24 hours during which federal student loan holders were subjected to judicial whiplash, as a lawsuit challenging Biden’s aid package, brought by seven GOP-led states, bounced from Georgia to Missouri courts.
The states bringing the suit — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Dakota and Ohio — allege that the U.S. Department of Education’s new debt cancellation effort is illegal.
The case was redirected to the…
