TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 11, 2022

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman struck down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program yesterday, declaring it unlawful. He said the executive action by the president was “an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power,” The Hill reports. The Biden administration has argued it has authority to forgive student loans under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003. Pittman rejected this argument finding no “clear congressional authorization” for the program. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed by the Job Creators Network Foundation on the behalf of two borrowers who are ineligible for different benefits of the plan.