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The hearing was a bloodbath for the Trump administration: Six justices lined up to bash the Justice Department’s defense of the tariffs, barely disguising their annoyance with the government’s barrage of blustery nonsense. At the halfway point, it would’ve saved everyone time had the court just huddled, announced its decision from the bench, and recessed early for lunch.
— Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer at Slate, summarizing the epic takedown the Trump administration faced at the Supreme Court earlier this week during oral arguments on the legality of Trump’s tariffs. “We have spent 10 months waiting to see if, and when, this court would set a limit on Trump’s power,” Stern wrote. “Perhaps we should’ve guessed that its extraordinary deference to this president could be outweighed only by its hatred of taxes.”
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