Blocking the forgiveness of student debt was rejected by the Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of USA rejected this Friday an attempt by a conservative organization to block the program of student debt forgiveness decreed by the president, Joe Biden.

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The judge Amy Coney Barrett denied an emergency request from the Pacific Legal Foundationbased in California, for the high court to block the policy promoted by the White House to cancel up to 10,000 dollars of debt per student.

However, the plan remains temporarily suspended by order of a lower court following a lawsuit led by six states governed by Republicans.

Some 26 million people across the country have already applied for debt cancellation since the program was announced in late August, according to the White House, which has encouraged those who qualify to continue enrolling in the program.

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Government Biden has defended his plan since “The monthly expenses of tens of millions of Americans will increase dramatically if debt payments resume next year.”

In mid-October, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit temporarily blocked the cancellation of the debt, until the judge issues a ruling on the case.

The appeal was filed by six states (Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina) after Judge Henry Autrey of the Eastern District Court of Missouri issued another order on Thursday in which he considered that the plaintiffs are not a party affected by the forgiveness of the debt and therefore rejected their blocking request.

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The states had sued the government and asked that the remission be blocked, considering that Biden had overstepped the limits with this decision and that he lacked the power to decree something like this unilaterally.

At the end of August, Biden announced that he will forgive part of the debt that millions of university students contracted with the federal government in order to pay for their studies, in a nod to the young vote before the legislative elections on November 8.

The president reported the cancellation of up to 10,000 dollars of debt per student, but this measure will only benefit those who earn less than 125,000 dollars a year or those who, being married, have an income of less than 250,000 dollars a year.

Source: Elcomercio

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