The Supreme Court stuck up for congressional power in a ruling Friday invalidating most of President Donald Trump’s worldwide tariffs, a decision that gave insight into where the justices stand when it comes to how much presidents can do without getting lawmakers involved.
The justices in the 6-3 majority showed that most of the court wants Congress to be explicit when it gives away its powers such as taxation, although there was a split on how to arrive at the conclusion that Trump overstepped his emergency powers that he claimed were in a 1977 law.
Michael Thorning, director of the Structural Democracy Project, called the majority opinion “a bit of a Venn diagram of which members of the court believe what about how Congress can delegate that authority.”
