Lawsuit Filed Blocking Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

With the Biden Adminstration pushing a new student-loan forgiveness plan, there would also be the pushback.

Missouri’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey, along with other AGs are bringing that pushback in a lawsuit that would block their plan completely.

The lawsuit is claiming it’s unconstitutional and a slap in the face to the Supreme Court.

And who is stuck with the tab?

The taxpayers.

But I think once you see the class courses our kids are taking, you may just think twice and be more than willing to make those payments for them.

More of that at the end.

See you in court. https://t.co/20tzKssCSj

— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) April 12, 2024

As Missouri Attorney General I filed the lawsuit that stopped Joe Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness scam. It saved taxpayers a half a TRILLION dollars.

He’s at it again — in a cynical effort to buy votes. It’s a huge middle finger to those who paid them back, or worked their…

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) April 8, 2024

Business Insider reports:

Another lawsuit to block President Joe Biden’s new student-loan repayment plan has arrived.

On Tuesday, Missouri’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey led six other GOP states in filing a lawsuit to block the new SAVE income-driven repayment plan. The lawsuit argued that the plan, established in July 2023 to give borrowers more affordable monthly payments, is unconstitutional and is in “defiance of the Supreme Court” decision that blocked Biden’s first attempt at broad debt relief at the end of June.

Specifically, the Education Department implemented a provision of SAVE ahead of schedule in February: $1.2 billion in debt relief for 153,000 borrowers who originally borrowed $12,000 or less and made as few as 10 years of qualifying payments.

That provision was originally set to be implemented in July, and the lawsuit said there is “no justification for the early implementation of this provision.”

“This latest attempt to sidestep the Constitution is only the most recent instance in a long but troubling pattern of the President relying on innocuous language from decades-old statutes to impose drastic, costly policy changes on the American people without their consent,” the lawsuit said.

This lawsuit comes just a couple of weeks after a separate group of 11 GOP state attorneys general filed a lawsuit also targeting the SAVE plan. An Education Department spokesperson said at the time that the department doesn’t comment on pending litigation. However, the spokesperson noted that “Congress gave the US Department of Education the authority to define the terms of income-driven repayment plans in 1993, and the SAVE plan is the fourth time the Department has used that authority.”

One of the key distinctions between Bailey’s lawsuit and the other lawsuit to block SAVE is Bailey’s argument that the SAVE plan would hurt the revenue of student-loan company MOHELA, which is based in Missouri.

Just Announced 🚨 🚨 🚨 Missouri

(AG) Andrew Bailey is suing Joe Biden for his student loan giveaway, already ruled that its Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

Raise your hand ✋️ if you want every single Republican (AG) in the country to join him pic.twitter.com/hK5f7pXpsK

— Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) April 12, 2024

Washington Examiner adds:

The high court majority decided that the Biden administration could not “unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy,” according to the 6-3 opinion in Biden v. Nebraska.

“Undeterred, the President is at it again, even bragging that ‘the Supreme Court blocked it. They blocked it. But that didn’t stop me,'” Bailey said in the lawsuit.

A Missouri challenge was pivotal in the Supreme Court’s decision against the Biden administration on this matter the first time. Bailey had argued the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, a major student loan servicing company, was harmed by the program. Bailey made similar arguments in the newest suit.

Bailey also argued in his lawsuit that Biden’s new scheme, the Saving On A Valuable Education plan is actually more costly than the prior attempt, to the tune of $475 billion across 10 years.

The lawsuit poses a similar challenge to another one filed by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach last month. Kobach, a Republican, is leading a coalition of 11 state attorneys general, and he said at the time that the Biden administration wants to “steal from the poor and give to the rich. He is forcing people who did not go to college, or who worked their way through college, to pay for the loans of those who ran up exorbitant student debt.”

Bailey’s challenge also laid out a pattern through which the Biden administration has overstepped its authority, “from imposing unlawful vaccine mandates across the country, to imposing unlawful and backbreaking regulations on energy producers, to arrogating for himself the power to prohibit every landlord in the nation from initiating eviction proceedings.”

The Biden debt scheme would cancel accrued interest on student loans for roughly 23 million debt holders, eliminate entirely the student debt of roughly four million borrowers, and ultimately give $5,000 in debt relief to 10 million people, according to the plan the White House unveiled Monday.

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Members of the Biden administration have been on a public relations tour touting the debt cancelation plan this week. Biden spoke Monday at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin, while Vice President Kamala Harris was dispatched to Philadelphia, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona participated in an event in New York City, and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff traveled to Arizona.

Do you agree with cancelling student debt?

First, let me show you the curriculum.

(Yes, they’re all real. Source is BestLife)

1. Tree Climbing

2. Getting Dressed

3. Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame

4. South Park and Contemporay Social Issues

5. How to Watch Television

6. The Art of Walking

7. Cryptozoology (want to learn about Big Foot and the Loch Ness monster?)

8. The Physics of Star Trek (Booo. We want Physics of a Lightsaber)

9. Elvish Language Course (from The Lord of the Rings book series, in case you ever visit Middle-Earth and want to fit in.)

10. Makin’ Whoopi: Goldberg’s Canon (I’m assuming they just have a marathon of her movies)

11. The American Vacation (Should be retitled History of, or Myth, seeing as how no one is able to afford these anymore.)

12. The Amazing World of Bubbles (Will bubble gum be allowed in this class?)

13. Demystifying the Hipster (this class, above all others, needs to be cancelled.)

14. Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse (these comes in close 2nd for the worst. The irony is liberals don’t realize that zombies are literally a metaphor for them.)

15. Deconstructing TV’s Buffy (Is owning this show on DVD a prerequisite?)

16. Maple Syrup: The Real Thing (Is this offensive to fake syrup like Mrs Butterworth?)

And those are only a few of the highly practical courses available at indoctrination camps across the country.

Don’t you want the privilege of paying off someone’s tuition for any of those?

Please let us know why you wouldn’t in the comments below.