Heather Hurlburt
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first heard Jul 2026
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One could also say, and I think it's relevant to this set of decisions, that the Roberts Court has been very sensitive to markets and financial pressures, as some of the places where the court has been most willing to push back on President Trump's unfettered use of executive power.
have been not just around the Federal Trade Commission, but also around the tariff cases.
Yeah, so that one is very interesting because the court, or I should say a majority, although not all, um there was a split among the conservative justices that enabled this.
The court did hold that the Constitution is pretty clear about arrogating tariff making powers to Congress, and that the specific statute, which is abbreviated AIPA, that Trump had sought to
use has explicit limitations that don't extend to broad
Permanent.
Tariff-making powers.
And the court in the majority decision was quite explicit, not only that Trump couldn't do that, but that he needed to go back and unwind what had been done, which is quite unusual in the range of decisions the court has taken in this term.
And I should say, however, that the process of unwinding has been noticeably slow in providing.
Yeah.
And the president has been very aggressive in using other legal authorities to try to replicate the structure and overall level of tariffs.
And we expect those cases will end up back at the Supreme Court as well.
So Bronwyn, that is the unspoken part of this this debate about presidential power is that you have not just the court handing more power to the executive, but in many cases Congress either failing to use powers that the Constitution had clearly arrogated to it, or the court begging Congress to step in and and legislate.
And Congress declining to do so.
So it's hard to talk about this story as just a Supreme Court and the executive, and not frankly just during the Trump administration, but progressively in US politics over the last couple of decades, you've had Congress less and less willing to legislate on complex or politically fraught issues, thus leaving more power for the executive branch to fill.
It's a very interesting irony that just as that decision came down, we had a new American breakout sports star in Falarin Balogun, the uh Nigerian British American.
Who scored several goals for the US in early rounds before infamously drawing a red card?
Who was an American citizen with the right to play for the US team because his mother got stuck in New York City and couldn't board a plane because she was deemed to be too pregnant and so stayed in New York and gave birth to a young man who eventually played for the US.
And as Max said, that fact was remarked upon by advocates of birthright citizenship.
But I truly don't know that the court ruling changed anyone's opinion who already had a strong view on the topic.
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