LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals granting an emergency stay in the matter of Missouri v. Biden, again halting the Biden administration’s evolving attempt to cancel student debt:

“This is the latest blow to President Biden’s unlawful plans to cancel student loans without congressional approval. Our coalition won at the lower court last month, and we have continued to win in the Eighth Circuit. The President is disregarding the separation of powers in the Constitution and the fundamentals so clearly articulated in Schoolhouse Rock. I am grateful the courts continue to prevent President Biden from doing an end-run around Congress.”

Griffin is the co-lead in the lawsuit with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. They are joined in the suit by the attorneys general of Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma.

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