Federal Judge Just Saved Loan Forgiveness for America's Public Servants
A federal judge just handed a huge win to teachers, nurses, and nonprofit workers across the country. Judge Myong Joun of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts struck down Trump's attempt to gut the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, calling the rule unlawful, arbitrary, and a violation of the First Amendment.
Trump's Education Department tried to rewrite the rules so it could strip loan forgiveness from workers at organizations the administration simply didn't like. Critics said the new rule was written broadly enough to punish anyone whose job didn't align with MAGA politics, and Judge Joun agreed, pointing directly to the administration's pattern of threatening legal action against groups it disagreed with.
A second judge in Washington, D.C. struck the rule down the same day, just one day before it was set to take effect.
Judge Joun didn't just block a bad rule. He stood up for the promise this country made to the people who serve it, the teachers in underfunded schools, the nurses working overtime, the nonprofit employees holding communities together. That promise almost got ripped away to score a political point, and one judge said absolutely not.
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A federal judge just handed a huge win to teachers, nurses, and nonprofit workers across the country. Judge Myong Joun of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts struck down Trump's attempt to gut the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, calling the rule unlawful, arbitrary, and a violation of the First Amendment.
Trump's Education Department tried to rewrite the rules so it could strip loan forgiveness from workers at organizations the administration simply didn't like. Critics said the new rule was written broadly enough to punish anyone whose job didn't align with MAGA politics, and Judge Joun agreed, pointing directly to the administration's pattern of threatening legal action against groups it disagreed with.
A second judge in Washington, D.C. struck the rule down the same day, just one day before it was set to take effect.
Judge Joun didn't just block a bad rule. He stood up for the promise this country made to the people who serve it, the teachers in underfunded schools, the nurses working overtime, the nonprofit employees holding communities together. That promise almost got ripped away to score a political point, and one judge said absolutely not.
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