The oral arguments featured plenty of deeply enjoyable and not at all impenetrable back-and-forth among the nine justices; U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer; Neal Katyal, the lead lawyer for the corporate plaintiffs; and the Oregon state solicitor general, Benjamin Gutman.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in what is at once a wildly abstruse case, as most cases that reach the highest court usually are, but which boiled down to some pretty basic and seemingly important issues: Does the president have absolutely unfettered powers to mess with the entirety of the U.S. economy and a few dozen trillion dollars’ worth of international trade? The consolidated cases at issue challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs after he declared a national emergency.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in what is at once a wildly abstruse case, as most cases that reach the highest court usual
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