Hilgers said following oral arguments on Tuesday morning that the justices asked “very positive” questions about the White House’s authority to institute the program, which would offer up to $20,000 in loan forgiveness to individual borrowers making less than $125,000 a year or $250,000 a year for households.

“To some degree it’s always a little bit of reading the tea leaves, but I thought I the questions the justices asked were very positive. The justices focused pretty pretty heavily on the merits, in terms of where [in the HEROES Act] did Congress give the Department of Education the ability to have a $500 billion student loan discharge,” Hilgers said.

[Crossing my fingers while reading Hilger’s tea leaves … — Ed]