The Biden administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to move forward with its mass student-debt forgiveness program, which had been put on hold in lower-court litigation.
The Justice Department, in an emergency appeal, asked the high court to throw out an injunction issued this week by the St. Louis-based Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that prevented the administration from canceling debts while litigation is pending. That order came in a case brought by GOP officials in six states who claimed that the program was an unlawful exercise of presidential authority that would affect state revenues and tax receipts.
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