The Supreme Court killed the president’s tariffs. What happens now?

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Less than a year after President Donald Trump heralded “Liberation Day,” his dream of a new trade order has been all but snuffed out. The Supreme Court declared on Friday that the legal basis for Trump’s unilateral “emergency” tariffs was wholly unlawful and unconstitutional. The economic sanctions law he drew upon, 1977’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act, does not allow the president to unilaterally determine new charges on foreign goods—and the Constitution holds that Congress is the main arbiter…