Quite Possibly the Most Absurd SCOTUS Case of My Lifetime

Wednesday, November 05, 2025

The Supreme Court is about to hear oral arguments in a case that sounds like a fight over toy imports but is really about the future of presidential power.

Posted by jpw at 09:33 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

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The U.S. Supreme Court must overturn the Trump Administration's illegal tariffs.

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-- Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) Nov 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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That that is even a question is ridiculous.

SCOTUS will, once and for all, either show their deference to the Constitution or will show their a&^.

Yet another marker of how ridiculous this entire situation is is that I can't say with any confidence that they won't show their a&^.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-05 10:24 AM | Reply

Sauer seems to be grasping.
Barrett seems highly skeptical of Sauer's arguments.
Kagan's ripping his argument apart on "verbs."
Brown's been surgical.
Sotomayor's raised some decent questions.

Right now Sauer's getting ripped apart, but doing all he can to stick to his argument.

#2 | Posted by YAV at 2025-11-05 10:29 AM | Reply

LMAO! Sauer just said there's no empirical data that indicates Americans pay tariffs!

#3 | Posted by YAV at 2025-11-05 10:34 AM | Reply

Katyal just reminded Alito of Alito's previous position... lol

#4 | Posted by YAV at 2025-11-05 11:40 AM | Reply

Here is the prediction....they will rule that Pedo47 has the power to do so and there ruling in this case has no precedent on any future president.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-05 02:08 PM | Reply

Katyal just reminded Alito of Alito's previous position... lol

Like that means anything to this corrupt court.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-05 02:09 PM | Reply

Supreme Court appears skeptical of Trump's tariffs argument
www.yahoo.com

... Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed some skepticism about President Donald Trump's authority to impose sweeping tariffs on imports under a law designed for use during a national emergency.

The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority that has regularly backed Trump on various contentious cases since he took office in January, but based on the almost three-hour oral argument, the tariffs dispute is a close call.

Both conservative and liberal justices asked tough questions of Trump's lawyer, Solicitor General D. John Sauer, though some of the conservatives seemed more sympathetic to his arguments. ...

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-05 02:37 PM | Reply