Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) said President Donald Trump will be handed a defeat by the Supreme Court in his tariff case.

Host Ari Melber said, “Your views on that hearing and is the White House wrong? Is this a tax? Is it a bad idea at this point?”

Markey said, “A revolution began in Massachusetts 250 years ago, and what the colonists were saying was no taxation without representation. We want to have a vote. We want our congressmen, our senators, to have a vote. We don’t want King George deciding what the tea tax is, what the stamp tax is. So that was the revolution, and we are now having a latter-day revolution against Donald Trump’s attempt to illegally usurp power from Congress to tax.”

He added, “I was over there in the Supreme Court yesterday. I sat there

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