Nina Totenberg

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

Tariffs are the hallmark of Trump's economic policy, and he has said on Truth Social that if he loses this case and is not able to move quickly to use the power of tariffs, he would be, quote, defenseless.

leading perhaps even to the ruination of our nation.

Indeed, Trump flirted with the idea of attending today's argument, but in the end decided against being the first president to do that.

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.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

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.

That could change, however, if the court removes the guardrails to redistricting that it endorsed as recently as two years ago.

Indeed, if the conservative majority either nullifies the redistricting provision of the law or makes it much more difficult to enforce,

Democrats could lose as many as 19 congressional seats, putting control of the House effectively out of reach for the foreseeable future.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

Supporters of conversion therapy contend that it succeeds in curing a person's attraction to the same sex, in other words, making a gay person straight, and similarly, curing a person's desire to change their gender identity.

And they argue that barring licensed therapists from using

conversion therapy when it's purely talk therapy violates the First Amendment right to free speech.