A federal judge has allowed a temporary restraining order on the Biden administration’s new student debt relief plan to expire, clearing the way for the program to resume alleviating the debt incurred by more than 25 million Americans.
Issued late Wednesday, the decision by U.S. District Judge Randal Hall, a Bush appointee, stems from a lawsuit filed early last month by a coalition of Republican-led states—Missouri, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, North Dakota and Ohio—to block the Biden administration’s program.
Hall dismissed Georgia from the lawsuit, saying the state had failed to show that the plan had caused it sufficient financial harm that was “concrete, particularized, actual, or imminent.”
