The U.S. Department of Education is slated to launch its application for student loan forgiveness later this month, but a growing list of legal challenges could threaten the program’s rollout.
Five separate lawsuits in courts across the country seek to block the plan, arguing that the president overstepped his executive power by authorizing such large-scale debt relief without congressional approval.
Biden throughout his presidency has faced skepticism from trial judges and the conservative-majority Supreme Court for stretching his authority, including when the high court blocked the president’s vaccine-or-test rule for private-sector workers and his pause on rental property evictions during the pandemic.
