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“The fact that they raise revenue is only incidental,” Sauer says of the tariffs. I’m not sure Trump would agree: #Trump has often emphasized the vast amounts of revenue being raised by his #tariffs & their ability to offset #tax cuts.
Justice #Sotomayor is also acknowledging an argument we’ve heard frequently in months of lower court arguments — that the economic emergency law that Trump is using to impose tariffs does not explicitly contain the word tariff.

#SCOTUS #law #AbuseOfPower #economy

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 2 weeks ago

Justice #Jackson raises a key issue: That the emergency #law in question, #IEEPA, was actually passed by #Congress to constrain the president’s authority & reform an earlier law, the Trading With the Enemy Act, or #TWEA, that Nixon had used to issue global #tariffs.

#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · last month

“It is a separate question as to how we go about remedying that, & the extent to which we need to use #race as a remedy,” Justice #Jackson added. “That’s the question we’re here on today.”

Up next is attorney Edward Greim for Phillip Callais & other #white #Louisiana voters.

#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · last month

In an animated discussion to close up Aguiñaga’s arguments, Justice #Jackson asked him to specify where in §2 another minority district was laid out as a potential solution.

As the #Louisiana solicitor general repeatedly referenced prior court interpretation of §2 as seeking to settle matters of “racial injustice,” Jackson interjected to note that such cases were “so tied up w/race because that’s the initial problem.”

#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy