LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued a statement after securing a preliminary injunction halting President Biden’s latest attempt to cancel student loans without congressional authorization.
“With Independence Day fast approaching, another court has reminded President Biden that he is not a king. He can’t go around Congress and unilaterally cancel student loans. He should have learned that from Schoolhouse Rock. And whenever he ignores that lesson, I will be there on behalf of Arkansans to remind him,” Griffin stated.
The decision came in the case Missouri v. Biden. Arkansas is co-leading this lawsuit with Missouri, joined by Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma.
About Attorney General Tim Griffin:
Tim Griffin was sworn in as the 57th Attorney General of Arkansas on January 10, 2023. He previously served as the state’s 20th Lieutenant Governor from 2015-2023 and as the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District from 2011-2015. During his tenure in Congress, he served on several committees including Ways and Means, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Ethics, and Judiciary while also acting as a Deputy Whip for the Majority.
Griffin has been an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for over 28 years and currently holds the rank of colonel. In 2005, he was mobilized to active duty as an Army prosecutor at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, serving with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq. He currently commands the 2d Legal Operations Detachment in New Orleans, Louisiana.
His previous assignments include commanding the 134th Legal Operations Detachment at Fort Liberty (formerly Bragg), North Carolina; serving as Senior Legislative Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness at the Pentagon; and earning a master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.
Griffin also served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; Special Assistant to President George W. Bush; Deputy Director of Political Affairs; Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff; Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Arkansas; Senior Investigative Counsel for Government Reform and Oversight Committee; and Associate Independent Counsel under David M. Barrett during In re: HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.
A graduate of Magnolia High School, Hendrix College in Conway, Tulane Law School in New Orleans, and having attended graduate school at Oxford University, Griffin is admitted to practice law in Arkansas (active) and Louisiana (inactive). He resides in Little Rock with his wife Elizabeth and their three children.