The last time a president signed an executive order with a price tag in the hundreds of billions of dollars, that president was Joe Biden, and the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the policy as administrative overreach.

Now, president-elect Donald Trump has announced his own executive order worth hundreds of billions of dollars, promising to sign a massive tariff hike on goods from Mexico, Canada and China on his first day in office.

Those tariffs could be the first test of just how cravenly loyal the Supreme Court’s conservative wing is to the man who appointed three of the sitting justices to the bench.

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“Tariff” is just a fancy word for a tax paid by U.S. businesses on imported goods, with the added costs passed on to American consumers. Trump’s proposed tariffs of 25 percent on all products from Mexico and Canada, and 10 percent on all products from China, will cost about $272 billion per........

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