Missouri judge blocks Biden student loan forgiveness that was cleared to proceed

• The Biden administration's new sweeping student loan forgiveness plan is temporarily blocked again, a day after a federal judge said he would let a restraining order against the relief expire.
• St-Louis-based U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp issued a new preliminary injunction against Biden's relief plan.
• As a result, the U.S. Department of Education is now barred from forgiving people's student loans until Schelp, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump, rules on the case.

The Biden administration's sweeping student loan forgiveness plan was temporarily blocked again Thursday by a Missouri judge, just one day after a federal judge in Georgia said he would let a restraining order against the relief expire.

St-Louis-based U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump, issued the latest preliminary injunction against Biden's relief plan.

As a result of the order, the U.S. Department of Education is again barred from forgiving people's student loans until Schelp has a chance to rule on the case.

The latest order capped 24 hours during which federal student loan holders were subjected to judicial whiplash, as a lawsuit challenging Biden's aid package, brought by seven GOP-led states, bounced from Georgia to Missouri courts.

The states bringing the suit — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Dakota and Ohio — allege that the U.S. Department of Education's new debt cancellation effort is illegal.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Randal Hall in Georgia found that his state lacked standing to sue against the relief plan, and therefor his court could not be the venue for the case.

Hall directed the case to be transferred to Missouri, because