Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday rejected a challenge to President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program after a group of Wisconsin taxpayers argued he overstepped his authority on the measure that could cost up to $1 trillion.

Barrett, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, denied the Brown County Taxpayers Association’s emergency application without comment or without referring the application to the full court. …

The challengers wanted the high court to block the loan forgiveness program while an appeal plays out at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

(via Off the Press)

[I’d guess that this lawsuit may lack both standing and a showing of imminent irreparable harm necessary for the Supreme Court to intervene ahead of the appellate court. It almost certainly has nothing to do with the merits of the case. — Ed]