Trump, Supreme Court and tariffs
Digest more
A legal scholar and law professor roasted a judge appointed by President Donald Trump, referring to his "contortionist opinion" the Supreme Court is reviewing over mail-in ballots as "bonkers." Richard L.
22hon MSNOpinion
The Supreme Court Just Took a Scary Voting Case That Has Trump Salivating. He Might Be Disappointed.
As Mississippi explained in its brief seeking Supreme Court review: Oldham’s contortionist opinion reaching a contrary result is especially rich coming from a judge purporting to apply textualism—looking at the meaning of the text as understood by an ordinary English reader at the time Congress passed the statute.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) went on a tangent about the Supreme Court being “corrupt” on Tuesday, referencing the ethics scandals involving conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Court watchers say most of President Donald Trump’s judicial selections thus far have credentials in line with his first-term nominees—involvement with the conservative Federalist Society and prestigious clerkships with Republican-appointed U.
Opinion: William & Mary Professor Allison Larsen says a question from Justice Alito in the tariffs argument signals a disregard for the "passive virtues" of the judiciary: a slow-moving system in which the court takes stock of lower court judges' views.
President Donald Trump and senior administration officials are reinforcing the administration’s arguments for why the U.S. needs emergency tariffs, after a bruising hearing at the Supreme Court. Legal analysts,