John Roberts could be sneaking in yet another time bomb that'll blow up in the faces of those who want to defend this country's ideals.

The Supreme Court’s tariffs arguments were a bloodbath for Trump.:

Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett’s questioning of Katyal was far friendlier than their grilling of Sauer, who spoke in a frothy jumble of run-on sentences that was often hard to understand. (Jackson even noted at one point that he was speaking too quickly.) It sounded as if this trio was trying to figure out how they’ll rule against Trump: Must they invoke the major questions doctrine, as Gorsuch suggested to Katyal? Or can they rest a decision on the plain text alone? For Roberts, the case might present an irresistible opportunity to get the liberals on board with his very recently invented doctrine, whose only use until now has been to box in President Joe Biden. If he assigns himself the opinion of the court, he can leave them with little choice but to hold their noses and sign onto it for the sake of forming a majority. That would be a real coup for the chief: pressuring the liberals into validating a theory that they’ve harshly rejected for years, and doing so in a way that lets him claim it as an evenhanded and legitimate tool, not simply one neat trick to reject all Democratic presidents’ policies.