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The US Supreme Court Blinks: Tariffs, Partisan Justice and the Court-Packing Debate

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At the risk of mixing metaphors, much of the usually relentlessly partisan Republican majority’s “shadow docket” strategy to facilitate US President Donald Trump’s anticonstitutional excesses always had a problem, because much of it consisted transparently of “kicking the [constitutional] can down the road,” delaying judgment — but sooner or later, that can was going to… Continue reading The US Supreme Court Blinks: Tariffs, Partisan Justice and the Court-Packing Debate
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