“How the Supreme Court Spared America: The ruling against Trump’s tariffs is a major victory for the constitutional separation of powers, rule of law, and millions of American consumers and businesses.” Law professor Ilya Somin has this essay online at The Atlantic.
“After His Supreme Court Win, a Toymaker Refocuses on Growth; Tariffs upended Rick Woldenberg’s educational-toy business, which his grandfather founded in 1916”: Theo Francis of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“The Lawyerly Virtues: In Praise of Justices Kagan and Barrett.” Cass Sunstein has this post at his Substack site.
“Betty Boop or Shakespeare”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.
“Trump’s Tariffs Overturned; Our long national tariff nightmare is over, but do we get our money back?” You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.
“On a new banner, Trump evokes the shadow world of authoritarian icons; The Justice Department signals, with a public display, that it is now wholly loyal to the current president”: Art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott has this essay online at The Washington Post.
And Megan Butler of Courthouse News Service reports that “Former DOJ attorneys warn agency has been ‘decimated’; The Trump administration’s weaponization of the once-independent agency has undermined public trust in the rule of law, the attorneys said.”
“Shocker! SCOTUS Schools POTUS.” Columnist Maureen Dowd has this essay online at The New York Times.
“In Gorsuch’s Homage to Legislative Power, a Subtle Reproach of a Neutered Congress; In his concurrence to the ruling invalidating President Trump’s tariffs, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch made a forceful case for the sanctity of the legislative process — and an implicit critique of its current dysfunction”: Catie Edmondson of The New York Times has this Congressional Memo.
“The Supreme Court Fractures While Striking Down Trump’s Tariff Policy; It may look like the justices made a clean break with the president, but the mess the conservative bloc made for itself raises some major questions”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.
“In tariff case, Supreme Court justices bicker over treating Trump and Biden differently; Justice Neil Gorsuch, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, was unusually direct in suggesting some of his colleagues were treating presidents of opposing parties differently”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.
“Handing defeats to Trump, Supreme Court signals potential course change; A pair of rulings on tariffs and National Guard deployment mark the justices’ first major decisions against the president; More may be coming”: Justin Jouvenal and Julian Mark of The Washington Post have this report.
“John Roberts ends Trump’s big Supreme Court winning streak”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.
“Divide Among Supreme Court’s Conservatives Could Test Trump’s Agenda; In rejecting President Trump’s tariffs, the court’s six conservative justices displayed subtle differences in their views of executive power”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this news analysis.
“Trump Demeans Himself as He Attacks the Supreme Court; He calls the Justices who ruled against him ‘very unpatriotic’ and ‘fools’”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
And at National Review’s “Bench Memos” blog, Ed Whelan has a post titled “Trump’s Stupid and Vile Attack on Supreme Court Justices.”
“Trump’s Power to Sue US Challenged in $10 Billion IRS Case”: Erik Larson and David Voreacos of Bloomberg News have this report.