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William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Paul Krugman notes that, though legal experts say the Trump tariffs case sitting at the Supreme Court is an open-and-shut case, the court is (shamefully) dragging its feet about ruling. Why?

"For a right-wing justice, ruling in the Trump administration’s favor in such an open-and-shut case would amount to admitting that you’re a pure partisan hack."

#Trump #tariffs #SupremeCourt #Constitution #Congress
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/profiles-in-cowardice-tariff-edition

Profiles in Cowardice, Tariff Edition

The Supreme Court’s silence says volumes
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William Lindsey :toad:
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@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

"& even the right-wing faction on the court is trying to maintain the fiction that it’s still a deliberative body, not a MAGA rubber stamp.

But to rule against the administration would be to hand Trump a humiliating defeat on one of his signature policy issues."

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"This isn’t a difficult case on the merits, but it puts the six right-wing members of the Court between a rock & hard place, not intellectually, but personally."

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