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The listening to was a massacre for the Trump administration: Six justices lined as much as bash the Justice Division’s protection of the tariffs, barely disguising their annoyance with the federal government’s barrage of blustery nonsense. On the midway level, it will’ve saved everybody time had the court docket simply huddled, introduced its choice from the bench, and recessed early for lunch.
— Mark Joseph Stern, a senior author at Slate, summarizing the epic takedown the Trump administration confronted on the Supreme Courtroom earlier this week throughout oral arguments on the legality of Trump’s tariffs. “We’ve spent 10 months ready to see if, and when, this court docket would set a restrict on Trump’s energy,” Stern wrote. “Maybe we should always’ve guessed that its extraordinary deference to this president could possibly be outweighed solely by its hatred of taxes.”
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