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Tomorrow, the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments on whether all these tariffs that Trump

levied on the world are legal.

He used a law from 1977 called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy the

tariffs that collected hundreds of billions of dollars. And if... Economic Powers Act to levy the tariffs.

They've collected hundreds of billions of dollars.

And if the justices decided all these tariffs are illegal, would the U.S. have to pay back the money?

That could get really complicated because the government's probably spent all that money.

Let's get to Royal Oaks now.

ABC News legal analyst. Royale, how are you? I'm doing great, John. Yeah, I don't think we're going to have to pay any money back, but it could be a big defeat for Trump. And he's already lost twice, John. He lost in the trial court and the appeals court. And they said, oh, you can't do that under the act. But the appeals court did say, you know, Supreme Court's the boss, so we're going to wait to see what the

High Court says about it. And as you say, it's going to be dramatic tomorrow morning, is the oral

argument. You know, Trump's got an argument because traditionally this economic emergency law

has been used for things like freezing assets or the bad guys, you know, if they make war,

take our hostages, economic sanctions, and the statute doesn't have the word tariff.

But Trump's attitude is, look, this was a crisis.

I really think it was an emergency.

And so it's justified.

And it wouldn't be a shock if the court, you know, six out of nine that Republican appointees agree with Donald Trump.

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