At a hearing before the Supreme Court last week, a majority of the justices thankfully expressed real skepticism over Donald Trump’s bizarre and clearly illegal effort to utilize an emergency economic powers provision that doesn’t even mention tariffs to institute random tariff rates on pretty much every country in the world, shaking the foundations of the global economy while stripping Congress of its revenue-raising powers.

Is there any congressional authority that Trump and his acolytes won’t want to take for themselves? We know that the answer is no, so the next most important question is: how many of these powers will the legislative body itself and the courts permit Trump to snatch away? He’ll take whatever he can get, but the whole point........

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