Around 27.6 million student loan borrowers could benefit as a federal judge ruled to remove Georgia from the lawsuit against President Joe Biden‘s student debt forgiveness plan.
Georgia-based U.S. District Judge J. Randal Hall made the decision Wednesday. On Thursday, the temporary restraining order blocking the Biden administration from moving forward with its SAVE forgiveness plan expired.
The state of Georgia was leading the lawsuit along with Missouri, but Hall said there was no evidence that Georgia would be harmed by the federal government’s move to forgive roughly $73 billion in student loan debt.
Now, only Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, North Dakota and Ohio will be the plaintiffs. And, due to Georgia’s lack of legal standing, litigation for the case will be moved to Missouri.
Georgia originally argued that it would face tax revenue losses and thus had a legal right to challenge Biden’s Education Department.
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