Brian Kelsey, a senior attorney at the America First Policy Institute who helped write a brief to the Supreme Court defending the tariffs, argues that IEEPA gives Trump the authority to impose tariffs (Kelsey is a former Tennessee state senator who received a pardon from Trump earlier this year):

In one of the great scenes of one of the great gangster movies, Mike Newell’s “Donnie Brasco,” an aging Mafioso named Lefty Ruggiero paces a hospital corridor while his son fights for his life following a drug overdose.

Historian Bob Blackburn was asked recently to name the most consequential Oklahoman in state history — the person who made the greatest difference in our lives today.

Politicians and leaders have done this repeatedly in world history. Take the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, for instance. The intent was to protect American farmers and manufacturing in hopes countries would invest more in American manufacturing ...