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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…

@Carwil@mastodon.online
2025-11-06 17:04:45

In the midst of the SCOTUS tariff case, Neil Gorsuch asked if Congress could just hand off any and all power to the president.
It seems like we have 5 to 6 votes against an Enabling Act.