S.C. Atty General files emergency application to halt student loan repayment plan

Alan Wilson
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Columbia, SC (WOLO) —- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is filing an emergency application in the Supreme Court with hopes of upending the SAVE student loan repayment plan. Wilson filed the emergency application for the move Friday. Before now, a preliminary injunction was granted by a federal district court which placed the plan on hold.

Wilson says, the U.S. Department of Education then followed by filing for a stay of that injunction allowing the repayment plan to take effect. After the 10th Circuit granted the stay South Carolina, Texas and Alaska joined forces with their filing, ultimately asking the Supreme Court once again to stop the repayment plan in its tracks.

Wilson released a brief statement in regards to the filing Friday saying,

“The Supreme Court already ruled in another case that the Biden administration doesn’t have the authority to waive hundreds of billions of student loan repayments,” Attorney General Wilson said. “But President Biden is trying to go around that and do it anyway. This is classic grandstanding by the President of the United States. It would mean all taxpayers will be saddled with paying off billions of dollars of these students’ debts.”

In the case of Nebraska v. Biden the Supreme Court ruled that the president does not have the legal authority to cancel college student loan repayments. Instead, deciding that only Congress has the authority to carry out those actions. Wilson, along with representatives from Texas and Alaska are asking the Supreme Court to once again intervene and “uphold the rule of law and the Constitution”.

If you would like to see the emergency application filed Friday in it’s entirety you can click on the link provided HERE