Nina Totenberg

So far, every judge to have heard the challenge to Trump's interpretation of the Constitution has disagreed.

Now, the Supreme Court will decide.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

We're the only country in the world that does this with birthright.

Colorado's law addressing conversion therapy does not just ban physical interventions.

In cases like this, it centers speech based on viewpoint.

Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety.

Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the same, but the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.

The law has been on the books since 1968 and has often been used as a workaround to prosecute individuals suspected of other crimes.

It was the law used to prosecute President Biden's son, Hunter, for illegal possession of

during the time he admitted he was a drug addict.

In today's case, the government describes the defendant as a drug dealer with ties to terrorists, but he's not been charged with being a terrorist or a drug dealer.

When his home was searched, however, he did admit to recreational use of marijuana, an admission that led to his prosecution,

for what the government calls persistent drug use of marijuana while in possession of a gun.

Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

Writing for a hefty 6-3 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the nation's founders deliberately and explicitly placed the power to impose taxes, including tariffs, with Congress, not with the president.

As the Chief Justice put it in his announcement from the bench this morning, having just fought a revolution motivated in large part by taxes imposed on them by the King of England without their consent,

The framers wrote a constitution that gives Congress the taxing power because the members of the legislature would be more accountable to the people.

An agitated Trump railed against Roberts and two Trump-appointed justices who joined with the court's three liberals to strike down the Trump tariffs as unconstitutional.

And that was hardly all.