#Roberts pushed back on Katyal's claim that #tariffs fall squarely within #Congress' taxing power.
Roberts said: “Sure, the tariffs are a tax, & that’s a core power of Congress, but they are a foreign-facing tax, right? And foreign affairs is a core power of the executive.”
He added that #Trump's tariffs at issue in the case "were quite effective in achieving particular objectives," noting that Trump’s tariffs have undoubtedly given him leverage in making recent #trade deals.
"I don't think you can just separate it when you say, 'Well, this is a tax -- it's Congress' power,'" #Roberts said. "It implicates very directly the president's foreign affairs power."
Katyal responded that a president’s emergency powers are not limitless, & that the public needs to know what these limits are.
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