Learning Resources v. Trump

Five Lessons from the Tariff Case

What can the case teach us about litigating environmental cases against Trump?

Learning Resources v. Trump, the recent tariff ruling, doesn’t say anything direct about environmental cases.  But there are a series of useful lessons for environmental litigators. One obvious one is that the conservatives aren’t all “in the tank” for Trump (though Alito and maybe Thomas seem have gone pretty MAGA).  Trump’s nasty insults of the conservatives who ruled against him probably won’t bring them back onto the Trump train. His effusive praise for the three conservatives who voted for the tariffs may even increase frictions within the supermajority. Here are five more lessons. 

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Bring Back the Legislative Veto!!

Various representatives stand behind one man talking to a microphone on a podium with a sign on a podium that reads ," TERMINATE TRUMP'S FAKE EMERGENCY #FAKEEMERGENCY."

Restoring Presidential-Congressional balance also restores the Constitution’s vision of government — and could pay environmental dividends

One line that stood out in the Supreme Court’s opinion in the tariff case, Learning Resources v Trump, was this one from Neil Gorsuch: Once this Court reads a doubtful statute as granting the executive branch a given power, that power may prove almost impossible for Congress to retrieve. Any President keen on his own authority (and, …

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