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Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs that were put in place to punish foreign countries running a trade deficit against the United States, against China and Mexico for alleged fentanyl smuggling, and against Canada just for being Canada.

The consolidated cases, Learning Resources v. Trump and Trump v. VOS Selections, challenge Trump’s claim that he has the power to issue tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which permits the president to regulate transactions involving any property in which any foreign country or national thereof has any interest, in order to deal wit

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