"When the Supreme Court hears arguments next week on President Donald Trump's tariffs, prepare for crossed wires. Liberals who typically oppose Trump's economic policies will espouse traditionally conservative legal principles. Conservatives who prioritize doctrine over Trumpism will agree with those liberals, forming an unlikely alliance. And those who reflexively support anything Trump does, for the pure Trump of it all, will twist themselves into pretzels to justify the president's unbounded executive-power grab."
"The legal battle began in the Court of International Trade, a federal court that handles disputes over international commerce. In May, a panel of three judges - appointed to the bench by Presidents Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and Trump himself - unanimously found invalid the tariffs implemented on the president's first day in office this year against Mexico, Canada, and China as well as the worldwide tariffs announced on the Trump-branded "Liberation Day," April 2."
Cross-ideological legal alignments have emerged around President Trump's tariffs, with liberals defending conservative legal principles and conservatives prioritizing doctrine over Trumpism. A three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade in May unanimously invalidated tariffs imposed on the president's first day against Mexico, Canada, and China and the worldwide tariffs announced on April 2. Trump publicly attacked the Federalist Society and its founder Leonard Leo after the ruling. In August, the Court of International Trade issued a seven-to-four decision finding the tariffs unconstitutional; the court's majority and dissenters span multiple presidential appointing authorities, and Trump has not appointed judges to that court.
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