Group Appeals to Supreme Court in Effort to Prevent Biden Student Debt Relief Program From Being Implemented

A Wisconsin Taxpayers Association has appealed to the Supreme Court in an effort to prevent the Biden Student Debt relief program from being implemented.

The implementation of the program is set to take effect this weekend, so an injunction would need to be issued soon in order to do so.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett would be the one who would have to make the move as she is responsible for handling emergency application requests from the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

The request was made by the Brown County Taxpayers Association, which had a previous lawsuit on the matter dismissed by a federal judge in the state.

That judge ruled that the group did not have legal standing to block the plan and that is the main obstacle for those hoping to foil Biden’s order.

Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said that it is necessary to find a plaintiff who can prove they’ve been harmed by the policy as “Such injury is needed to establish what courts call ‘standing.'”

The U.S. Department of Education opened its application for student loan forgiveness in a beta test on Friday and more than 8 million people reportedly submitted requests for relief over the weekend.

The Biden administration could start processing borrowers’ requests for student loan forgiveness as soon as this Sunday after the application officially launched on Monday.

As CNBC noted, six Republican-led states, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina, are trying to block Biden’s plan.

Those states have argued that the president doesn’t have the power to issue nationwide debt relief without Congress and claimed that the policy would harm private companies that service some federal student loans by reducing their business.