False dawns a’plenty at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Nine Wise Souls heard a case on which depends the president’s unilateral power to use tariffs to force trade deals and, generally, his power to do almost anything he wants to do under a declared “emergency.” The key word in all the dispatches from the chamber was “skeptical.” From The Wall Street Journal:

Solicitor General John Sauer, who defended the tariffs, spent most of his presentation fielding sharp questions from justices across the ideological spectrum. The court’s three liberal members made their opposition clear from the outset , and several key conservative justices soon followed. In particular, Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed Sauer at length on the separation of powers. If the court allows Congress to broadly “han

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