Usa news: For more than four months tens of millions of Americans have waited for a sign about whether President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan is legal or whether it would be struck down by federal courts as a power grab.

The Supreme Court may finally provide some answers Tuesday, though a decision is not expected until later this year.

Over the course of several hours, the nine justices will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging Biden’s plan. The plaintiffs in both assert that the administration exceeded its authority by attempting to grant debt relief to an estimated 40 million people.

People rally in support of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan in front of the the Supreme Court on February 28, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson handed down her first merits opinion Tuesday in a battle between states over who gets the proceeds of abandoned money orders.

Jackson wrote for a unanimous court that as a general matter the proceeds should go to the state where the product was purchased. By tradition, the court tries to assign the least senior justice an opinion that is unanimous.