Rick Wilson

That's it.

It's not like a if the president kind of wants to have a vibe about raising tariffs.

The emergency declarations that he's been using to do this are facially deficient, as one lawyer put it to me.

So on that hand, I think any Supreme Court was going to go, come on, we can't do it this way.

This is against the black letter law of the Constitution.

However, this Supreme Court has bent itself in pretzels for a decade now to accommodate Donald Trump.

So I – unfortunately, my gut tells me we're going to end up with some kind of Solomonic split-the-baby BS.

where Trump, they'll say he's wrong, but that the emergency declarations in this particular case are right.

That's where I'm going to guess they go, because they do not operate as an independent judiciary.

They operate as a law firm for the president right now.

I mean, if you go through at the end of the day – and look, Citizens United was a –

Well, the McCain-Feingold campaign finance move ended up being a trap.

They were right to want more transparency and accountability.

The trap was once you got to the Supreme Court,

you get Citizens United, which has F'd our politics top to bottom.

And I live in that world.

You live in that world.

We all understand how campaigns are run on money.

They do not happen for free, unfortunately.

They're not just mom and dad in the barn putting up hand-painted signs.