In public Republicans tend to echo Team Trump’s invective toward “radical Left activist” judges who dare to question the 47th president’s efforts to massively expand his own powers. But despite the lusty cheerleading for Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, you have to figure that privately many Republicans hope the federal courts rein in some of this administration’s worst excesses. That is particularly true with respect to the front-and-center Trump agenda item that most violently departs from orthodox conservative doctrine: his unilateral and wildly erratic imposition of tariffs. Could the U.S. Supreme Court do what GOP politicians fear to do but would love to see done?

It’s entirely possible, as Ankush Khardori explains at Politico in a review of the common strands of the four separate lawsuits challenging Trump’s tariff extravaganza:

The legal case against the tariffs is straightforward. The plaintiffs in the four cases to date frame their complaints slightly differently, but they generally boil down to a handful of arguments.

First, the........

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