Coney Barrett Rejects Challenge To Student Debt Relief

The New York Times reports:

Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday rejected a challenge to President Biden’s student debt relief program from a taxpayers’ association in Wisconsin that said he had overstepped his authority in adopting the sweeping measure, one that could cost the government hundreds of billions of dollars.

Justice Barrett denied the association’s challenge without comment, which is the court’s custom in ruling on emergency applications. She acted on her own, without referring the application to the full court, and she did not ask the administration for a response. Both of those moves were indications that the application was not on solid legal footing.

Although she did not say so, Justice Barrett most likely rejected the application because the plaintiff, the Brown County Taxpayers Association, did not appear to have shown that it had suffered a direct injury that gave it standing to sue.

Read the full article. Other suits are in progress.

US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied an emergency challenge to the Biden administration’s student-debt relief program by a Wisconsin taxpayers group https://t.co/NjgWjveGRH

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