"In the tariffs case, Learning Resources Inc v Trump, Roberts seemed appalled at the extraordinary powers Trump had seized to impose whatever tariffs he wanted at any amount he wanted. 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."
"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. The ruling this Friday is the first time during Trump's second term that the justices have struck down one of his policies. 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."
The Supreme Court invalidated Donald Trump's global tariffs, holding that the Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the power to impose taxes and tariffs. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion, joined by three conservative justices and three liberals, noting that tariffs are taxes and that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not mention tariffs. Roberts criticized the administration's interpretation as allowing unconstrained presidential authority to impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. The decision arose in Learning Resources Inc v Trump and struck down a signature economic policy used against more than eighty countries.
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