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The surest indication that the Trump administration has no good legal defense of its global tariff regime comes from the last place you might expect: a brief filed by the United States solicitor general to the Supreme Court. The solicitor general’s office has a long-standing reputation for integrity, humility, and sober analysis—but under John Sauer’s control, its arguments have become increasingly indistinguishable from President Donald Trump’s partisan harangues. Sauer’s brief in the tariff case is proof positive: Rather than offer persuasive legal reasoning, it pummels the justices with Trumpian campaign rhetoric. Tariffs, the solicitor general declares, “are

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