Decorum might dissolve during oral arguments on Wednesday in the Supreme Court. The justices might guffaw when Trump administration lawyers say: The president’s tariffs should be exempt from judicial review because they respond to an “emergency,” emergencies, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder, and presidents alone are our designated beholders.

This momentous case must either undermine or buttress the Constitution’s architecture: the separation of powers. Six amicus briefs explain why.

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