June Grasso
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So how do you interpret regulate?
Does that mean you can impose tariffs or not?
And, you know, a lot of the justices, particularly the liberal justices, harped on the
language of the statute.
What does it mean?
I mean, this is a court that's originalist, and they're trying to interpret all the time what the words of a statute or the words of a constitution mean.
So they were looking at this and saying, you know, where do you get the authority in this statute to impose tariffs?
And it was pretty obvious during the oral arguments that there were enough votes, particularly the Chief Justice, and
The chief justice wrote this opinion.
I'll just note that when I predicted that, because whenever there's a big opinion that he's in in the center, he writes it.
He wrote the you know, the Supreme Court opinion giving President Trump limited presidential authority to be.
let's say, to be, I'm trying to think of the right word, not to be prosecuted for criminal acts committed in office.
He wrote that one.
He's written all the very, very big opinions.
So when we heard what he said in the oral arguments, it was pretty obvious what was going to happen.
And it's just a question of why it took so long.
And I think Justice Jackson had said last week that
in an interview, that there are nuances to this.
And we won't be able to see the nuances until we get through some of this.
170 pages.