A U.S. federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs from going into effect, ruling that the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from nations that sell more to the United States than they buy.

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    3 days ago

    Gonna love seeing Alito and Thomas try to argue that in this one very specific and limited case it’s perfectly fine for Congress to abdicate its Constitutionally appropriated powers to the executive branch.

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      I’m sure some precedent was set during a mutiny trial in the Roanoke colony or something…