LINCOLN- Nebraskans hoping to have up to $20,000 of their student loans canceled in Nebraska may just have hit a snag after the state joined five others in putting forth a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education.

The lawsuit is the second filed against the Department, after a lawyer in Indiana did the same earlier this week, and intends to directly challenge the Education Departments' authority to cancel student loan debt.

Republican attorneys general in Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and South Carolina put forth their own lawsuit, as well as signing Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' own.

Gov. Reynolds' lawsuit argues that Congress never approved student debt cancelation, and that the Biden administration and Department of Education were misusing emergency authority.

Nebraska AG Doug Peterson argued that Biden's administration improperly interpreted a 2003 federal law that was passed to help military members dislodge student debt more easily.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts lauded AG Peterson, stating that he was "leading the charge" to hold President Biden "accountable to the law."

"President Biden's student loan forgiveness scheme," Ricketts went on to say, "is fundamentally unfair and would harm American families forced to pay for it."

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