{"id":292551,"date":"2022-11-11T20:20:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T00:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=292551"},"modified":"2022-11-12T04:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T04:51:10","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-the-legal-threat-to-biden-s-student-loan-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-legal-threat-to-biden-s-student-loan-forgiveness","title":{"rendered":"What To Know Now That Biden\u2019s Student Loan Forgiveness Has Been Ruled Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student loan borrowers gather near the White House in May. Paul Morigi \/ Getty Images for We, The 45 Million Late Thursday night, a federal judge in Texas ordered that President Joe Biden&#8217;s student loan forgiveness program be scuttled, declaring that it was unconstitutional . The administration had been taking applications since last month from some of the more than 40 million eligible borrowers. More than 26 million people had already signed up, with over 16 million applications approved. But the ruling from US District Judge Mark Pittman in the northern district of Texas means that the program has been struck down &#8212; for now. Here&#8217;s what we know about where things stand and what could happen going forward. Who is this judge? Pittman was appointed to the federal bench by former president Donald Trump in 2019. Prior to that, he&#8217;d been a judge in the Texas state court system. Although he hasn&#8217;t been a federal judge for long, he&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge surprised many by striking down the student debt relief program late on Thursday. Here&#8217;s why he did that and what might happen next to revive it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}