June Grasso

This court is totally in Trump's pocket, would be one of the things that would be said.

So it's so important on so many different levels, not only the level of what's going to happen now and that the tariffs have been declared illegal, but also for the integrity, I think, of the Supreme Court.

It would have been shocking if they had ruled for the tariffs.

So joining us now is Dave Townsend.

He's a partner at Dorsey & Whitney, trade attorney.

Dave, can you explain for us the basic premise of the Supreme Court's majority opinion?

So is there anything, and I know you haven't gotten through the whole opinion, but is there anything that surprised you about this opinion?

find, and I know Justice Kavanaugh during the oral arguments talked a lot about what President Nixon did on the predecessor statute to IEPA.

Where do they find the authority of the president to issue these tariffs?

Explain why it's tricky.

Well, I mean, I guess it would be preferable for the people in the majority, for the justices in the majority to say, you know, this was a unanimous vote.

But otherwise, you know, it doesn't really matter.

It's six to three with the very conservative justices in the minority.

I mean, this was expected after the Supreme Court oral arguments happened.

it seemed as if this was the definite conclusion.

And so people were wondering what was taking so long.

Well, what's taking so long is it's 170 pages.

So it's kind of difficult to get through and to figure out exactly what happened.

But what happened during the oral arguments was that you have this

statute AIPA that no other president has used to impose tariffs.