Trump’s global tariffs have finally been overturned. What next? | Steven Greenhouse

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Roberts wrote that “the President asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope” and that under the administration’s reading of the law, “the President is unconstrained by the significant procedural limitations in other tariff statutes and free to issue a dizzying array of modifications at will.”Over the past year, the court’s six-person conservative supermajority has ruled in Trump’s favor in a remarkably high percentage of shadow docket cases– letting Trump gut the Department of Education, letting Ice stop people based on their ethnicity, letting Trump refuse to spend appropriated USAID funds, letting the Pentagon discharge transgender service members.After all that water-carrying for Trump, it’s encouraging to see the court stand up to him and trumpet in the tariff case that Trump was interpreting laws in implausible, illogical ways in order to use his executive powers to the max.
42% : Not only that, the policy they struck down is Trump’s signature economic policy – he has used tariffs to bash, lord over and terrorize dozens of other countries and make himself the King of the Economic Jungle.In the court’s main opinion, joined by three conservative justices and three liberals, chief justice John Roberts used some sharp language to slap down Trump’s tariffs, writing that the constitution specifically gives Congress, not the president, the power to impose taxes and tariffs.

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