Browsing: could accept that a president’s weaponization of tariffs may bypass Congressional authority under the law. Trump’s Republican cronies in Congress had better pay attention

     Justice John Roberts, speaking for the majority, rejected the government’s argument that the IEEPA “gives the President power to unilaterally impose unbounded tariffs and change them at will. That view would represent a transformative expansion of the President’s authority over tariff policy.”  No President has ever made such a claim, said Roberts. The tariffs “extend beyond the President’s ‘legitimate reach.’”