Trump’s trade wars are back-despite the Supreme Court

To Trump, though, court rulings are road maps, not roadblocks. February’s court ruling simply rerouted him to tools the court hadn’t explicitly prohibited. And fortunately for Trump, Congress has over the years scattered many such tools through the law books, many largely forgotten or unused. In the past two weeks Trump has announced tariffs of 25% on Brazil, 50% on Canada and up to 200% on generic drugs, and on Thursday, tariffs of 10% to 12.5% across as many as 60 trading partners. The upshot: Trump can wage a trade war that is as sweeping and capricious as before the…