Tamara Keith

I cover the White House.

I'm Carrie Johnson.

I cover the Justice Department.

And today on the show, we are talking about some of the major decisions expected to come from the U.S.

Supreme Court in the days, weeks and months ahead.

The court has indicated it could release its first opinions of the year as early as Friday.

Kerry, one opinion that we are watching for and could get on Friday concerns President Trump's tariffs policy.

Remind us of the key issue here.

Appropriations and taxation.

So yeah, and President Trump is clearly very, very concerned about this case.

He has been posting on social media at a very regular cadence, including this post from January 2nd saying, quote, tariffs are an overwhelming benefit to our nation as they have been incredible for our national security and prosperity like nobody has ever seen before, exclamation point.

Losing our ability to tariff other countries who treat us unfairly would be a terrible blow to the United States of America.

Mara, it would certainly be a terrible blow to his agenda, or would it?

Yeah, it's been remarkable to me how existential he is treating this, even though, Carrie, I think there are potentially other options if the court rules against him.

Carrie, this is one of several cases before the court this term that are central to Trump's agenda.

What are the others that you're watching?

Yeah.

It's a political and economic high wire.

Carrie, another one is birthright citizenship.

President Trump signed an executive order when he came into office attempting to ban birthright citizenship.