{"id":2324349,"date":"2024-08-14T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-unblock-student-loan-plan-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:41:57","slug":"biden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-unblock-student-loan-plan-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-unblock-student-loan-plan-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden DOJ asks Supreme Court to unblock student loan plan &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-unblock-student-loan-plan-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2324349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court\u200d to lift a legal block on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-in-five-white-house-staffers-have-student-debt\/\" title=\"One In Five White House Staffers Have Student Debt\">student loan cancellation plan<\/a>, which was \u2064recently halted by a ruling from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals due to lawsuits filed by multiple states. \u200cSolicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urged the justices to remove the injunction, stating that the rule reflects the Department of Education&#8217;s authority to manage income-contingent repayment plans, which has been in practice \u200cfor three\u200b decades. If the Supreme Court does not act quickly, the government is requesting \u200cthat the legality of the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan be expedited for a hearing in the \u200cfall. This situation mirrors previous instances \u200dwhere the Supreme Court ruled against similar student loan\u2062 forgiveness initiatives. The initial phase of the\u2063 SAVE Plan,\u2064 which aimed to increase the income threshold for loan payments, was implemented last fall but is now facing uncertain legal challenges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden DOJ asks Supreme Court to unblock student loan plan<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1634182\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Biden administration<\/a> asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Supreme Court<\/a> on Tuesday to lift a block on its student loan cancellation plan after an appeals court temporarily enjoined it last week, placing the plan in further legal peril.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar called on the justices to temporarily lift the hold put in place by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, after several states sued to block the implementation of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3057665\/parts-of-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-plan-blocked-by-judges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saving on a Valuable Education<\/a> Plan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The United States flag casts a shadow on the Supreme Court building on Friday, April 21, 2023, in Washington after the court decided to preserve women&rsquo;s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The justices on Friday granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone(AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;The rule is a straightforward exercise of the Department&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-asks-supreme-court-to-restore-healthcare-worker-federal-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Asks Supreme Court To Restore Healthcare Worker Federal Vaccine Mandate\">express statutory authority<\/a> to set the parameters of income-contingent repayment plans &ndash; just as it has done for three decades,&rdquo; Prelogar wrote.<\/p>\n<p>If the Supreme Court declines to intervene over the case on its emergency docket, the federal government requested the justices weigh the legality of the SAVE Plan on the merits on an expedited track so that oral arguments can be heard in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The government&rsquo;s appeal of the 8th Circuit&rsquo;s decision harkens back to the last time the Supreme Court intervened in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/student-loans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>student loan<\/a> dispute, when the Biden administration&rsquo;s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in debt for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-household-credit-card-debt-up-13-percent-as-cost-of-living-surges-report\/\" title=\"U.S. Household Credit Card Debt Up 13 Percent as Cost of Living Surges: Report\">low-income borrowers<\/a> was struck down in a 6-3 vote along ideological lines.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Department of Education&rsquo;s scheme, the first phase of the SAVE Plan went into effect last fall, which raised the income shielded from payments from 150% to 225% above the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamaphone-company-to-pay-13-4-million-after-allegedly-signing-up-175000-customers-ineligible-for-free-phones\/\" title=\"\u2018Obamaphone\u2019 Company To Pay .4 Million After Allegedly Signing Up 175,000 Customers Ineligible For Free Phones\">federal poverty guidelines<\/a>. Unpaid interest outside the calculated payments was waived.<\/p>\n<p>However, two separate groups of Republican state attorneys general have filed federal court challenges to the plan, arguing that the estimated cost for the plan, which is roughly $475 billion over 10 years, requires authorization from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 8th Circuit on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3117365\/block-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-save-plan-extended-federal-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>ruled<\/a> in favor of Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma to temporarily block the SAVE Plan from being implemented as the lower court fight plays out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the states of Alaska, South Carolina, and Texas have asked the Supreme Court to halt the plan after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit allowed a broad portion of the plan to go into effect.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court requested a response from the states led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Missouri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Missouri<\/a> by Monday at 4 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1634182\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1634182\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration requested the Supreme Court on Tuesday to remove a block on its student loan cancellation initiative, which was temporarily halted by an appeals court last week, putting the plan in jeopardy. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urged the justices to lift the hold imposed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit after several states filed lawsuits to prevent President Joe Biden&#8217;s Saving on a Valuable Education Plan from being implemented. <\/p>\n<p>On April 21, 2023, a shadow of the United States flag fell over the Supreme Court building in Washington as it ruled to maintain women&#8217;s access to mifepristone, a drug commonly used for abortion, while ongoing litigation continues against lower-court restrictions. The justices granted emergency requests from both the Biden administration and Danco Laboratories, which produces mifepristone.<\/p>\n<p>Prelogar stated that &#8220;the rule is a straightforward exercise of the Department\u2019s express statutory authority&#8221; regarding income-contingent repayment plans\u2014something that has been done for thirty years. If the Supreme Court does not act on this emergency case, the federal government has asked for an expedited review of SAVE Plan&#8217;s legality so oral arguments can occur in fall.<\/p>\n<p>This appeal follows a previous instance where a similar student loan forgiveness plan was rejected by a 6-3 vote along ideological lines. The first phase of SAVE Plan began last fall and increased income protection from payments from 150% to 225% above federal poverty levels while waiving unpaid interest outside calculated payments.<\/p>\n<p>However, two groups of Republican state attorneys general have challenged this plan in federal court, claiming its estimated $475 billion cost over ten years requires Congressional approval. The 8th Circuit recently sided with Missouri and several other states to temporarily block implementation as legal disputes continue. Meanwhile, Alaska, South Carolina, and Texas have also sought intervention from the Supreme Court after another circuit allowed parts of SAVE Plan to proceed. The Supreme Court has requested responses from Missouri-led states by Monday at 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2324350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Student_Loans_Debt_67392.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,7076,32783,32275,32076],"class_list":["post-2324349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-doj","tag-student-loans","tag-supreme-court","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Student_Loans_Debt_67392.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}