Hello there, happy Wednesday and welcome to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast. As usual,

in the Trump era, there's a lot of things happening literally in the moment that I'm choosing to record,

which is late on a Tuesday evening and at the same time. So, you know, but we're all sadly kind of used to this.

But still, there's a lot of quick stuff I want to get to. We got word that the Supreme Court

was going to expedite its hearing on the legality of Trump's tariffs, of the Trump tariffs.

We went deep on that issue and he gave a pretty good pathway

to what happens to the tariffs if the courts rule them unconstitutional. Bottom line,

spoiler alert, they're going to likely stay in place. It may take, it may be a bit more complicated how they do it.

It may be a bit more, may take a lot more paperwork. The question I've always had, and I've

been sharing with you guys, does it lead to a vote in Congress? Is this something Democrats

use as leverage during the shutdown to try to force a vote on these things?

It's certainly, which potentially short-circuit a Supreme Court loss.

What's interesting, according to the reporting, this happened.

I happen to be on set on CNN doing a Casey Hunt Hunt show on the arena.

Casey Hunt, a former colleague of mine over at NBC,

really like what she's doing there, really trying to be information and sort of political reality first,

not allowing partisans to hijack her program, which I think is always

difficult, particularly even in the world of cable news these days. But she does a terrific job of

that. But it came in, and what was interesting is, according to CNN reporter Joan Biscupic,

it was the Trump folks who wanted to push, who was pushing the Supreme Court to actually do this sooner rather than later, which is mildly surprising to me because essentially Trump's, you know, what Trump wants, what Trump is doing and the argument he's been making about why his tariffs need to stay in place is basically like, well, it's too late. I've already collected all this money and

we've already used it. It's going to, you know, this helps offset, you know, the hole and the

deficit that he blew for the, for the tax cuts that he just did. And so he's essentially trying to say,

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