https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/13/supreme-court-class-action-settlement-student-debt-relief-00091970The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an effort by three colleges to halt a class-action settlement that’s set to cancel more than $6 billion of federal student loan debt owed by borrowers who say they were defrauded.
At least five of the justices voted to turn down the colleges’ effort to stop the settlement and challenge the Education Department’s powers to cancel large amounts of federal student loan debt.
The request was made to Justice Elena Kagan, who oversees emergency matters from the 9th Circuit. Kagan referred the matter to the entire court, which voted to turn down the request. It’s unclear how any individual justices voted, but none recorded any dissent.
Conservatives had seized on the case as a way to rein in Joe Biden’s efforts to cancel student debt and attack a potential backup plan to enact mass loan forgiveness if the Supreme Court strikes down his debt relief program in two other pending cases.
