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2025-10-15 03:05:50

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Florida Congressman (Neil Vigdor/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/cory
memeorandum.com/251014/p167#a2

Chief Justice John Roberts,
who has used his position to do Trump a lot of favors,
noted that Trump’s use of IEEPA to claim an unlimited tariff authority ran up against the separation of powers.
Tariffs are “taxes on Americans, and that has always been the core power of Congress,” he said.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, likewise a reliable pro-Trump vote, worried that gifting Trump a vast power to impose tariffs would be a “one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual ac…