A federal judge on Oct. 3 blocked President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan, one day after a different judge said he would not extend a block on the program.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp, citing an earlier appeals court decision in a case against a separate loan cancellation plan, said that plaintiff states that sued over the program will be irreparably harmed if he did not enter a preliminary injunction against it as the case moves forward.
“And plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits in showing that defendants’ actions would be unlawful, like every court reviewing the previous plans to unilaterally erase it,” Schelp said. “Balancing the harm and the injury, merged with the public’s interest, easily leads this court to the conclusion that preliminary injunctive relief should issue. The public has an immense interest in its own government following the law.”…