TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 21, 2022

Two attempts to block President Joe Biden’s student-loan forgiveness program faced setbacks yesterday, the ABA Journal reports. The first case, a challenge brought by the Wisconsin-based Brown County Taxpayers Association, was blocked by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who handles emergency requests from Wisconsin. Barrett acted without referring the matter to the full court. The suit had been tossed out earlier by a federal judge who said the taxpayers group did not have standing. In the second case, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey of the Eastern District of Missouri dismissed a challenge filed by six Republican-led states. Autrey also cited a lack of standing in his ruling.