'Showdown': Supreme Court put on the spot as Trump's 'signature initiative' looms over all
Donald Trump's hot streak of wins with the Supreme Court could come to a screeching halt in November when the conservative majority will hear arguments about what USA Today is calling the president's “signature issue.”
With the court reconvening next week after a break that was littered with Trump wins via the so-called “shadow docket,” the court will take up more challenges to the president’s agenda, many of them related to how far they will allow the current president to exert power over Congress.
As USA Today’s Maureen Groppe wrote, the court is already under scrutiny due to the perception that “the Supreme Court is going out of its way to avoid making a ruling against Trump that he might refuse to obey,” according to polling.
That will be tested when the nation's highest court takes up the challenge to Trump’s claim that he can bypass Congress and impose tariffs on a whim.
According to the report, “the main focus will be on Trump's continued testing of the limits on his authority, starting with a signature initiative – the sweeping tariffs that are the centerpiece of Trump’s economic policy and a major foreign policy cudgel.”
Casting a cloud over the next term, according to Samuel Bray, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is “the showdown between the Supreme Court and the president, or the absence of a showdown between the Supreme Court and the president.”
Former Solicitor General Donald Verrilli indicated, “the court will want to show it’s upholding the traditional checks and balances between the executive branch and the two other branches of government,” the report notes before adding Verrilli stated the justices “will feel they need ‘a pretty strong case on the legal merits.’"
"You can’t help but think that’s going to be hovering over the decision-making process in this case,” he added.
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