Emily Bazelon

So the court rejected Biden's efforts to use broad emergency statutes for certain COVID restrictions and also to forgive student loans.

And so to see the court here resolve a case similarly against a different president is

matters in terms of, I think, the country's perception of whether the court is being fair.

If you're just looking at the words of the statutes, you could decide to come out differently.

But the overarching message here, I think, is really important for the accusation that the Supreme Court has just like turned into a bunch of hacks who do whatever Trump wants.

This seems like a pretty clear response to that, not a direct response, but the court making clear that it does not necessarily just knuckle under when Trump expects it to.

Yeah, I think that's right.

I mean, one big difference is they require more process.

Right.

So some of them, the executive branch has to go and do an investigation.

One statute Trump is relying on sets 150 day deadline for tariffs that the president can impose without congressional approval.

Yeah, exactly.

The 15 percent one.

So, yes, I think this sort of basic question, does this president have the power to impose tariffs under these statutes?

That seems like it's pretty solid for Trump.

But then they're going to be all these questions about how he actually invokes them, what they amount to, the kinds of goods he tries to impose tariffs, because some of them are also limited for the reasons the president can give and the kinds of things that can be taxed.

I mean,

You know, there is a sort of like, OK, well, let's just move on to something else here.

And yet Trump is so devoted to these tariffs that he's going to double down.

Right.