Betsy DeVos rebuked again as court blocks her rule restricting coronavirus relief to students

On Friday, Politico's Bianca Quilantan reported that a federal judge in Washington has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' new restrictions on emergency coronavirus relief grants.

The rule, which had just been finalized, rolls back colleges' ability to distribute these grants to undocumented students. Washington state led the legal action against the regulation.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson celebrated the decision.

The injunction is one of a long string of recent legal problems plaguing DeVos and the Department of Education. In October, another judge held DeVos in civil contempt for ignoring a court directive to stop debt collections from students of the former Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit network of schools that was dissolved in 2015 following a federal investigation.