The Supreme Court announced Thursday it will hear a legal challenge to President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan early next year.
The high court left an injunction in place halting the program, but the justices set arguments on the matter for February.
The challenge was led by a group of red states, with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals siding with them last month against Mr. Biden’s plan to forgive millions of borrowers.
A Texas court had issued an injunction blocking the plan as well.
The solicitor general in a filing in November had asked the justices to lift the 8th Circuit’s injunction, reasoning that the secretary of Education had found there would be a spike in delinquency from low-income earners following the COVID-19 pandemic.