Appeals Court Blocks Biden's Student Loan Cancellation Efforts: 'Almost Certainly Unlawful'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Kobach blasted the debt cancellation plan as a political ploy just ahead of the 2024 elections, saying, "It may just be coincidence, or it may be that the administration is attempting to curry favor with people who have student debt."
53% : Jones' opinion comes in the case of Career Colleges and Schools of Texas v. United States Department of Education, et al, in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 23-50491.
51% : Whatever he did or didn't do with the Supreme Court, Biden has been very busy passing rules to cancel student loan debt.
50% : On Thursday, another court stepped up to oppose Biden's plan, calling his latest attempt to cancel student debt "almost certainly unlawful.
50% : "Biden has been working to cancel student debt since he came to office.
48% : Joe Biden has spent much of his presidency attempting to cancel student debt for millions of Americans, but he has also seen stiff resistance from the courts.
48% : The move in February came after Biden's announcement in October that he intended to cancel $9 billion in student debt.
44% : "The Biden administration had tried to focus the rule only on Career Colleges and Schools of Texas (CCST) loans, but Jones also demurred from that policy, saying that the focus is "incoherent in light of its use of the Rule to prescribe uniform federal standards.
36% : Writing for a three-judge panel, U.S. Circuit Judge Edith Jones said Career Colleges and Schools of Texas, which has been opposing Biden's debt cancellation policy, would likely be able to prove in court that the U.S. Department of Education does not have the authority to under the Higher Education Act to cancel $430 billion in student loans for 43 million students.

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