A coalition of Republican-led states petitioned the Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject President Joe Biden’s bid to reinstate his student loan forgiveness scheme and instead keep it frozen until litigation around it is resolved, while accusing the administration of exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to hide the president’s “true goal” of erasing student debt.
In a Supreme Court filing (pdf), the GOP-led states argued that Biden exceeded his executive authority in announcing the student debt wipeout, which is the subject of several lawsuits and recently ordered to be put on hold by a court.
