Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert. We're reporting on this Trump defeat at the Supreme Court

today. Six justices striking down these tariffs. It's a clear blow to what we know is a clear and

major economic priority for President Trump. The High Court nixing Trump's tariffs, all of this

is important and lands as a path to potentially a wider check on the president's efforts to seize emergency powers.

That ranges from trade, the subject of this case, to potentially military policing and a lot more in this MAGA era.

This ruling is obviously a setback for Trump.

It is the most sweeping rejection of Trump's attempted power grabs from the Supreme Court that we've seen his entire second term.

It's driving headlines tonight about both the obvious economic importance,

trimming billions in international tariffs, and the wider pushback to Trump's efforts

at a more unilateral or some say kinglike presidency.

Now, later tonight, I'm going to give you a detailed breakdown on what the court's rebuke

means, especially going forward. Right now, we begin with the seismic news landing across the

nation. An increasingly rare directive from the Supreme Court. It told Donald Trump no. A major slap

at the president of the United States. It is fundamentally a reversal of the president's position.

It's a conservative court and Trump doesn't often lose, does he? The court said, look,

you can't make a sow's ear into a silk purse. Would you say he lost this one? He did.

He did lose. He did. This decision is a loss for the administration. This is an enormous

decision and a rare loss for President Trump reinforcing the separation of powers enshrined in the U.S.

Constitution. The ruling is about power more than economics. It reinforces the limits on any president's power,

including this president, the chief justice, dealing Trump a clear defeat. Under law,

the power to authorize tariffs in peacetime is constitutionally vested in Congress alone,

we saw today. Now, Trump could have avoided today's loss had he simply

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