With U.S. President Donald Trump choosing not to attend Wednesday's Supreme Court oral arguments on his tariff regime — saying somewhat uncharacteristically: "It's not about me" — it looked like the most famous person watching the proceedings would be his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
But then John Mulaney showed up.
The comedian didn't tell reporters why he was there, but he once appeared on lawyer Neal Katyal's podcast to discuss "the parallels between Supreme Court arguments and stand-up."
Which brings us back to the tariffs case, because Katyal presented the arguments Wednesday for the small businesses who sued the Trump administration.
“Tariffs are taxes. They take dollars from Americans’ pockets and deposit them in the U.S. Treasury,” Katyal told the court right off the top of his opening statement.
“Our founders gave that taxing power to Congress alone.
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