Biden's efforts to make it easier for defrauded student-loan borrowers to get debt relief were blocked by a conservative court

• The Fifth Circuit blocked Biden's new rules to ease the debt relief process for defrauded borrowers.
• A for-profit group sued the administration, arguing the rules would harm impacted schools.
• The changes to borrower defense are now blocked as the legal process plays out.

President Joe Biden's efforts to help student-loan borrowers just got dealt another blow in court.

On Monday, a three-judge panel — appointees of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump — in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the Education Department's new rules to make it easier for student-loan borrowers who said they were defrauded by the school they attended to get their debt wiped out.