The Supreme Court said Thursday that it will hear arguments in a case challenging the Biden administration's student loan debt relief plan, but keep in place a lower appeals court's nationwide injunction that prevents that program from taking effect for now.
In the order released Thursday, it was stated that oral arguments would take place in February.
An injunction against the student loan relief program was lifted by the administration.
There was an injunction issued by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Emergency applications are handled by the Supreme Court justice.
The application to lift the injunction was put on hold by the Supreme Court.
The debt relief plan was found to be unconstitutional by a judge in the U.S. District Court in Texas.
That ruling is still in effect.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans agreed to put a hold on the decision.
The hold was refused by the 5th Circuit. The administration was going to ask the Supreme Court to stop the ruling from taking effect.
People walk across the plaza of the U.S. Supreme Court building on the first day of the court’s new term in Washington, October 3, 2022.Millions of people who took out student loans would have their debt canceled by the president.
More than 25 million people applied for the program before the injunctions were issued. Before the program was stopped, 16 million applications had been approved.
The administration said last week that it will extend a pause in required payments on federal student loans until after June, or until court-imposed blocks on the debt forgiveness plan are removed.
The Education Secretary said in a statement that it would be unfair to ask borrowers to pay a debt that they wouldn't have to pay.
Federal student debt holders were supposed to resume their payments in January.
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