Donald Trump’s aides have been mad at work trying to come up with a backup plan to salvage his trade war against much of the rest of the planet if an upcoming Supreme Court hearing doesn’t go MAGA’s way.

The nation’s top judges convene Wednesday to review the president’s use of the International Emergency Powers Act (IEPA), otherwise reserved for times of national crisis sparked by threats from abroad, to slap levies on dozens of countries, among them some of the United States’ most crucial trading partners.

While the White House has publicly signalled confidence that the ruling is set to go their way, efforts over the past several weeks to come up with a Plan B suggest its self-assurance may not in fact be ironclad.

Behind closed doors, Politico reports that MAGA advisers have modele

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