Why Donald Trump Is Correct, And The Supreme Court Wrong, About Tariffs

The Supreme Court’s radical departure from the law and basic principles of constitutional governance in last Friday’s abominable decision, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, marked an affront to the judiciary and a setback for the administration.

For an institution mired in a crisis of legitimacy, a court that has drifted far afield of the Constitution’s original text and intended meaning by its designers over a decades-long peregrination, the High Court did itself no great service by intruding...