President Donald Trump’s strategy for defending his tariffs in court is to make the case about himself as much as possible — and dare the justices to defy him.
The latest indication of that came Wednesday, when he revealed that he hopes to attend oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the legality of the worldwide tariffs he imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The hearing is set for Nov. 5, the morning after the off-year elections. “I think I’m gonna go to the Supreme Court to watch it,” he said at the White House. “I’ve not done that, and ... I had some pretty big cases. I think it’s one of the most important cases ever brought."