Last Friday, the US District Court for the District of Kansas ruled that 3 of 11 red states challenging President Biden's latest big student loan forgiveness program (which would forgive at least $156 billion in federally backed student debt) have standing to sue. Judge Daniel Crabtree, a Democratic Barack Obama appointee, ruled that the states of Alaska, South Carolina, and Texas have standing due to the fact that they have "public instrumentalities" that service student loans, and those agencies income is likely to go down if the administration's loan forgiveness plan is implemented. Thus, the states have an "injury in fact" of the kind needed for standing.
