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Instead, his Treasury Secretary will be there.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

The president argues that under the statute, he's entitled to set tariffs by himself in order to deal with persistent trade imbalances and to stem the flood of fentanyl coming into the United States.

Both, he claims, present national emergencies and pose a threat to national security.

But business owners and literally thousands of organizations are challenging that claim, noting that the statute nowhere uses the word tariffs.

They note that IEPA has been in existence for 50 years and never before has any president claimed that it grants him such unilateral power.

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Justice Kavanaugh, who cast the decisive fifth vote in a similar case from Alabama two years ago, reiterated his view that there should be an end point.

to racial remedies like this one.

But Nelson replied that while many provisions of the voting rights law did have time limits, Congress deliberately did not put a limit on this provision of the law.

I identified with the feeling of desperately trying to get out.

I feel like that really changed my life.

How did it change your life?

I think it allowed me to dream bigger.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the court's decision two years ago, downplayed the importance of that ruling, suggesting that he didn't see his decision as controlling the outcome in today's case.

At issue was a redistricting nap drawn by the Louisiana legislature after the decennial census.

After years of litigation, the state, with a 30% black population, agreed to draw a second majority black district.

Normally, that would have been the end of the case, but a self-described group of non-African American voters intervened at that point to object to the legislature's redistricting.

When the law was passed in 1965, there were just 12 minority House members.

Today, there are 134 Black, Hispanic, and Asian American House members.