How the Show Me State Could Show ‘Em Again—Bring Missouri Into the Litigation Challenging Biden’s New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan [Updated to Note Missouri Has Announced it Will Do as What I Urge]

I wrote last Friday about the new lawsuit that was filed by eleven red-states against President Biden’s massive new student loan forgiveness program. This case, as I wrote in my previous post, is very similar to the one that was brought by eleven red states.  Biden v. Nebraska, the 2023 case in which the Supreme Court invalidated the administration’s previous gigantic  loan forgiveness plan.

In a similar vein, the administration will likely try to win the case by arguing that plaintiff states do not have “standing” because they did not suffer a relevant injury. In Biden v. Nebraska, the Supreme Court (and lower courts) ruled that the plaintiffs succeeded in getting standing because the state of Missouri (one of the six state plaintiffs in that case has   a state agency –   the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri (MOHELA)—that services federally backed student loans, and MOHELA’s would be reduced if some of those loans were forgiven.

In my previous post, I discussed that Louisiana, which is one of the plaintiffs, has a state agency for student loans, which appears to be very similar to MOHELA. However, it might not be exactly identical. It isn’t…

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