Catastrophic. Ruinous. Country-killing. Tragic. These may sound like characterizations of Donald Trump’s Presidency. They were, in fact, adjectives used in the President’s brief to the Supreme Court warning of the consequences of declaring his tariffs unlawful. After months of issuing interim orders that granted most of the President’s emergency requests to lift lower courts’ temporary blocks on his various policies, the Court, on Wednesday morning, heard oral arguments in the case—the first on the limits of executive power in the second Trump Presidency. Prominent Administration officials were in attendance: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick , and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, all of whom are named parties. In 1803, Secretary of State James Madis

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