Trump, Supreme Court and border
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The Supreme Court should admit its error and restore the principle that no one, not even the president of the United States, is exempt from the rule of law.
Shira Perlmutter was fired after she issued a report about artificial intelligence. President Trump allegedly disagreed with the report.
The Supreme Court is reviewing President Trump’s emergency tariffs, and the decision could create a huge refund problem for the U.S. economy. Businesses say they paid high tariff costs and want their money back.
To justify the bulk of his tariffs, Trump has invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In the administration’s view, this law authorizes them to impose tariffs on more or less any nation, since America’s trade deficit constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the United States.
EARLY IN HIS second term, Donald Trump has profited from his previous appointments of Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. With few exceptions, they and their three conservative colleagues have removed obstacles to Mr Trump’s plans imposed by lower courts—letting him ban transgender soldiers from the armed forces,
The Supreme Court’s questioning of the use of a 1977 emergency law to impose tariffs on scores of countries raised doubt about the centerpiece of the president’s economic agenda.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard arguments over the legality of President Trump’s tariff policies. Based on the justices’ questioning, it appears the court is skeptical that a president