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“Why should I not hold you in #contempt?” the judge asked a #DOJ lawyer at a hearing last week. Instead of answers, she got excuses.

“I don’t think there was ever any intention to defy the court orders,” said the lawyer, Matthew Isihara, a military judge advocate [#JAG] on temporary assignment to the Justice Department. “We were doing our best & things, unfortunately, slipped — slipped through the cracks.”

#Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

#Trump posted that he was making the decision “Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday,” by #SCOTUS. 🙄

Cuz, you know, he told us he has excellent reading comprehension 🤣.

#law #economy #tariffs #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #Judiciary #legislative #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism

#Trump announced Saturday that he would raise his new, global #tariff to 15%, a day after he took steps to replicate some of the punishing duties that had been struck down by #SCOTUS.

Trump announced the change in a post on social media, & said the #tariffs would take effect immediately, as he signaled anew that he would press ahead with his #trade war despite the legal ruling.

#law #economy #SeparationOfPowers #Judiciary #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/business/trump-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

“I think it persuaded some, but we have this ruling now that so clearly puts the power back in Congress’s hands, the House’s hands,” Bacon said. “We have to stand up on our own two feet & use these authorities, because that’s what the founders intended.”

He, too, posted a screenshot of Justice #Gorsuch’s conclusion on social media on Friday, calling his homage to the role of the #legislative branch “perfect words.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

“I think it persuaded some, but we have this ruling now that so clearly puts the power back in Congress’s hands, the House’s hands,” Bacon said. “We have to stand up on our own two feet & use these authorities, because that’s what the founders intended.”

He, too, posted a screenshot of Justice #Gorsuch’s conclusion on social media on Friday, calling his homage to the role of the #legislative branch “perfect words.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

“I think it persuaded some, but we have this ruling now that so clearly puts the power back in Congress’s hands, the House’s hands,” Bacon said. “We have to stand up on our own two feet & use these authorities, because that’s what the founders intended.”

He, too, posted a screenshot of Justice #Gorsuch’s conclusion on social media on Friday, calling his homage to the role of the #legislative branch “perfect words.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

“I think it persuaded some, but we have this ruling now that so clearly puts the power back in Congress’s hands, the House’s hands,” Bacon said. “We have to stand up on our own two feet & use these authorities, because that’s what the founders intended.”

He, too, posted a screenshot of Justice #Gorsuch’s conclusion on social media on Friday, calling his homage to the role of the #legislative branch “perfect words.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

“I think it persuaded some, but we have this ruling now that so clearly puts the power back in Congress’s hands, the House’s hands,” Bacon said. “We have to stand up on our own two feet & use these authorities, because that’s what the founders intended.”

He, too, posted a screenshot of Justice #Gorsuch’s conclusion on social media on Friday, calling his homage to the role of the #legislative branch “perfect words.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Rep #DonBacon of Nebraska, one of the few #Republicans in the #House who has forced votes to overturn #Trump’s #tariffs & is set to #retire next year, said in an interview on CNN on Friday that one of the arguments #GOP leaders had used to keep their members from breaking was that “the president will just veto this if it does pass, so it’s only symbolic.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

#MikeJohnson has used some iteration of the phrase to respond to questions about whether it was appropriate for #Trump to accept the gift of a #jet from #Qatar leaders; whether he supported the ouster of the new director of the #CDC; & whether he would support Trump pardoning the convicted sex trafficker #GhislaineMaxwell, though he added such a move would give him “great pause.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Lawmakers sat idly by after the White House informed them it planned to use a rare maneuver to skirt a vote & cancel nearly $5 billion in #ForeignAid #funding that they had already approved.

“Not my lane” has become the go-to reply among #Republicans asked questions about any number of #Trump’s actions [when in reality it is exactly their lane].

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Most of the major elements of #Trump’s agenda have been accomplished via executive action, with the exception of the #tax & #spending cut #legislation #Republicans pushed through last year using the #partisan reconciliation process—hardly the “broad support to survive the #legislative process” that Justice #Gorsuch wrote was vital to enacting enduring policies.…

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Most of the major elements of #Trump’s agenda have been accomplished via executive action, with the exception of the #tax & #spending cut #legislation #Republicans pushed through last year using the #partisan reconciliation process—hardly the “broad support to survive the #legislative process” that Justice #Gorsuch wrote was vital to enacting enduring policies.…

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Most of the major elements of #Trump’s agenda have been accomplished via executive action, with the exception of the #tax & #spending cut #legislation #Republicans pushed through last year using the #partisan reconciliation process—hardly the “broad support to survive the #legislative process” that Justice #Gorsuch wrote was vital to enacting enduring policies.…

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Most of the major elements of #Trump’s agenda have been accomplished via executive action, with the exception of the #tax & #spending cut #legislation #Republicans pushed through last year using the #partisan reconciliation process—hardly the “broad support to survive the #legislative process” that Justice #Gorsuch wrote was vital to enacting enduring policies.…

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Most of the major elements of #Trump’s agenda have been accomplished via executive action, with the exception of the #tax & #spending cut #legislation #Republicans pushed through last year using the #partisan reconciliation process—hardly the “broad support to survive the #legislative process” that Justice #Gorsuch wrote was vital to enacting enduring policies.…

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Most #Republicans in #Congress appear to fall into the latter category. They have sought to give #Trump broad latitude on nearly every issue of significance, including powers normally jealously guarded by legislators, such as the authority to impose #taxes & #tariffs, to allocate federal #spending & to use #military force.

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

…It was hard not to detect a note of reproach for the current #dysfunctional state of affairs in #Congress in Justice #Gorsuch’s reflections about the virtues of #legislating, in which, he wrote, “deliberation tempers impulse, & compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions.”

“For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent,” he added. “For others, it may not seem so obvious.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

…It was hard not to detect a note of reproach for the current #dysfunctional state of affairs in #Congress in Justice #Gorsuch’s reflections about the virtues of #legislating, in which, he wrote, “deliberation tempers impulse, & compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions.”

“For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent,” he added. “For others, it may not seem so obvious.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

…It was hard not to detect a note of reproach for the current #dysfunctional state of affairs in #Congress in Justice #Gorsuch’s reflections about the virtues of #legislating, in which, he wrote, “deliberation tempers impulse, & compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions.”

“For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent,” he added. “For others, it may not seem so obvious.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

…It was hard not to detect a note of reproach for the current #dysfunctional state of affairs in #Congress in Justice #Gorsuch’s reflections about the virtues of #legislating, in which, he wrote, “deliberation tempers impulse, & compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions.”

“For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent,” he added. “For others, it may not seem so obvious.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

…It was hard not to detect a note of reproach for the current #dysfunctional state of affairs in #Congress in Justice #Gorsuch’s reflections about the virtues of #legislating, in which, he wrote, “deliberation tempers impulse, & compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions.”

“For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent,” he added. “For others, it may not seem so obvious.”

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Asked at a news conference at the White House on Friday whether he now planned to work with #Congress to impose the kinds of sweeping #tariffs he prefers, #Trump said he had no intention of doing so.

“I don’t have to,” he said. “I have the right to do tariffs.”

That has been a position that #Republican leaders have largely preferred not to question.

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s concurring opinion released on Friday after #SCOTUS struck down Trump’s #tariffs concluded with a paean to #Congress that read like a requiem for a bygone era of #legislative #power.

“Yes, legislating can be hard & take time,” wrote Justice #Gorsuch, a #Trump appointee who is part of the court’s #conservative majority. “And yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises.”

#law #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment

In Gorsuch’s Homage to #Legislative #Power, a Subtle Reproach of a Neutered #Congress

In his concurrence to the ruling invalidating #Trump’s #tariffs, Justice Neil M. #Gorsuch made a forceful case for the sanctity of the legislative process — & an implicit critique of its current #dysfunction.

#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/us/politics/gorsuch-congress-trump-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Later, the desperate desire of AG #MerrickGarland & President Joe #Biden to avoid any appearance of #partisanship led the #DOJ to put off looking into #evidence of a *potential* #crime & gave #Trump an advantage that few appreciated at the time. Garland’s delays softened the ground & would eventually help Trump remake the #Justice Department into his own cudgel.

#law #democracy #Constitution #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #GiftArticle

#Senate #Republicans almost certainly knew this when they stripped it from the bill. Leaving it in could lead to problems for passing the broader bill, which is #Trump’s signature domestic policy legislation ― a package that slashes nearly $1 trillion from #Medicaid & #FoodAssistance programs to pay for a massive #TaxCut for #rich people.

#law #Trump #NoKings #AbuseOfPower #ExecutiveOverreach #BigBeautifulBill #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary