JAKE JOHNSON
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday sided with a group of Republican attorneys general and struck down the Biden administration’s student debt cancellation program, undercutting efforts to deliver relief to tens of millions of borrowers.
In a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, the high court’s six conservative justices ruled that the GOP officials had standing to sue even though the Missouri student loan servicer they alleged would be harmed by the debt relief program was not part of the case.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, which ruled that the emergency power the Biden administration cited—the 2003 HEROES Act—”does not authorize” the Education Department’s debt cancellation program.
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