In fact, multiple justices later mentioned during Katyal/Gutman’s arguments that a total embargo on everyone would be something extreme (and implied to be bad) that they agree the statute allows

Sauer basically said that would be the intended result of the tariffs (at least “liberation day” ones)

I’m surprised Sauer didn’t get more pushback on his argument that the tariffs aren’t revenue raising because they work best if nobody ever pays them

This is nuts. The only way nobody ever pays them is a total shutdown of all imports from anywhere, which would obviously be catastrophic

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2. Congresswoman is also a real job
3. “Person who lost a swim meet and has made it her entire personality” is not a real job

Hope this helps!

Don’t forget CA and NJ! CA is probably the most important from the standpoint of the rest of the country

What’s encouraging to me is that they won by sizable margins that were better than their polling pretty much across the board. People are pretty fired up

I dislike them because I’m a Phillies fan, but Rocker definitely made it easier

Yeah, I mean, I thought his argument was the obvious reading: licenses = way to regulate by who you do and don’t grant permission to, not a backdoor way to raise money by charging huge fees

Think ACB says “try again, but call them license fees”?

Also, multiple justices have pointed out that shutting down trade with the entire world would be extreme and kind of insane, but Sauer has repeatedly said that the tariffs would work BEST if nobody ever paid them…which would mean shutting down trade with the entire world

Also, who cares if you can use tariffs as a diplomatic threat?? We use wars as a diplomatic threat, but that doesn’t mean the president can unilaterally declare war

Also, the “what if he uses tariffs as a threat to achieve policy ends and never collects them” hypothetical seems irrelevant to what powers the president has. He can use a threat of war to achieve policy ends, but that doesn’t mean declaring war is a presidential power

I think Kagan already said that if it’s even reviewable, they were grant a lot of deference, even though it’s obvious bullshit

It’s the central problem with the whole idea of using “it’s an emergency” as a limitation when that determination is solely up to the person supposedly being limited

Also talking about there being “real limits” when those limits are unreviewable declarations by the person supposedly being limited 🤦🏻‍♂️

Only need two! Also, none of the others are jumping in in sympathetic ways

I guess you could interpret Kavanaugh asking if other statutes with regulate have been used for tariffs as trying to throw him a bone, but it sure didn’t seem to help

Sotomayor’s response there is pretty devastating to the “this works best if nobody ever pays the tariff”

Also, Sauer’s arguing that the intended outcome would be to shut down all trade between the U.S. and the rest of the world (the only way nobody would pay the tariffs), which is insane

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I mean, I’ve seen you do lots of good journalism but haven’t seen Halligan do any competent prosecuting