Attorney General Pam Bondi is trying to retroactively shore up the embattled U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in a bid to save the government’s cases against two of President Donald Trump’s political enemies.

Conservative justices have long embraced textualism and stressed that laws should be interpreted based on plain meaning. The IEEPA, though, doesn’t actually mention tariffs in its text. It only authorizes the president to “regulate” importation in order to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat.”

The Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments Wednesday over whether President Donald Trump overstepped by using emergency powers to impose tariffs on more than 100 countries.

The Trump tariff cases will receive special treatment so the Justices can address multiple cases at the same time.

The Supreme Court test of Trump’s tariffs is backed by a legal group funded without disclosure by some of the wealthiest conservative donors.