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Supreme Court Rejects Broad IEEPA Tariffs
- The Supreme Court invalidated the administration's use of IEEPA to impose broad tariffs as beyond the statute's text.
- The decision was short on the core holding but spawned 170 pages of opinions and barbed concurrences, revealing Court internecine hostility.
Gorsuch Publicly Rebukes Thomas Over 'Kings' Reasoning
- Neil Gorsuch's concurrence used sharp rhetorical snipes to call out colleagues and to push back against Clarence Thomas's historical-royal power framing.
- Gorsuch explicitly chastised Thomas's 'kings' reasoning and highlighted tensions about the major questions doctrine.
Ruling Pushes Government To Less Durable Tariff Routes
- The Court's ruling forces the administration to hunt for alternative statutory authorities to reimpose tariffs, some of which carry strict time limits.
- Counsel warned that invoking different statutes now risks estoppel because the government previously disclaimed those authorities at oral argument.