U.S. appeals court blocks all of Biden student debt relief plan | 18 July 2024 | A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked Joe Biden's administration from continuing to implement a[n illegal] new student debt relief plan. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by seven Republican-led states to put on hold parts of the U.S. Department of Education's debt relief plan that had not already been blocked by a lower-court judge. That ruling last month by U.S. District Judge John Ross in St. Louis had blocked the department from granting further loan forgiveness under the administration's Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan but had not blocked all of the plan.