The Biden administration filed an appeal to the USSC asking that it cut the malarkey and reinstate President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program. The program was put on hold Monday by an injunction from the Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. In a separate case, the administration is also appealing a different ruling by a federal judge in Texas. That appeal is going through the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

The judge ruled the states didn't have standing to sue, because they weren't harmed by the program. The appeals court then...
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disagreed, focusing on a Missouri agency that services federal student loans. The state argues that the agency would lose revenue if loans are forgiven.
As I wrote above. The loans don't have to stay with the originating loan granter. Anyone can move the loan to another servicer and the state would lose money on that loan. It's an asinine argument that the conservative states are trying to make.

The big problem in challenges to the loan forgiveness program has been finding anyone who can credibly claim to be harmed by someone else having their debts forgiven, but rightwing foundations and law firms are nothing if not enterprising in scraping up plaintiffs if there's a chance to wreck a popular federal program.

It's clear to everyone that only Republican presidents have unlimited executive authority - per Republicans.

I can't wait to see what these idiots do with Hunter's laptop that was in Rudy Giuliani's possession. crazy

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