Tonight is a Supreme Court about to turn the tariff king into the terror of jester.

We'll take the inside of the case that could very well reshape Trump's entire term.

Plus, blowout election victories for Democrats with the question, is there momentum here to stay or could Trump defy gravity yet again?

And indict first, investigate second.

How a judge delivered a brutal blow to the DOJ's case against James Comey.

All of this tonight on Laura Coates Live.

How much power does the president have? Can you do what he wants? When he wants? Does he ever have to ask for permission from anyone? All right, whether's an emergency? Does your answer change? Or does it depend on what kind of emergency we're talking about?

Well, then you just became a Supreme Court justice today, because that's what the monumental

case they heard was all about. So here is what you really need to know. Congress, they got

the power to tax people. The president imposed widespread tariffs.

He did not check with Congress first.

Now, Trump says he didn't have to because it was an emergency, and he can do what he needs

to do under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

What's the emergency you ask?

The trade deficit. One problem with that, though, because the law that they're referencing doesn't actually mention that word, tariff. It says a whole bunch of other words. It says regulate. It says blog. It says direct. It says compel. It says void. The importation of exportation of any property in which any foreign country of a national

there's okay enough here's what it's about the trade deficit does not sound like an emergency

to you well you're on the side of the people who think that his tariffs are an unconstitutional

taxes and the power to impose them. That belongs to

Congress. Neil Katiel, the former acting Solicitor General, who has argued more than 50 cases in the

Supreme Court, he put it quite succinctly. May it please the court? Tariffs are taxes. But if the

trade deficit does sound like an emergency to you, then you're on

the side that says the President of the United States doesn't have to wait for Congress

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