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Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for six justices: Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett. All six agreed on the core holding. Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett formed a three-justice plurality on the major questions doctrine rationale; the other three declined to join that section.

As Roberts wrote, the government’s reading of two words in the statute, “regulate” and “importation,” claimed for the president the power to impose tariffs “of any product, at any rate, for any amount of time.” The majority’s response was direct: “Those words cannot bear such weight.”

The statutory argument is simple once you see it. Tariffs are a tax. The Constitution assigns the taxing power to Congress in Article I, Section 8. The framers, as Roberts put it, “did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch.”

An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

The United States Secret Service ⁠says its agents have shot and killed a man who attempted to break into a secure perimeter at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

The man, in his 20s, appeared to be armed with a shotgun and fuel can, according to the Secret Service’s communications chief Anthony Guglielmi. He was shot at about 1:30am Sunday morning (06:30 GMT).

Trump was in Washington, DC, not Mar-a-Lago, when the incident took place. No other individuals under Secret Service protection were present, said the agency.

The US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has said it would be “fine” if Israel took control of a vast swathe of the Middle East, drawing a swift rebuke from regional and other majority-Muslim states.

Suggesting even nominal support for Israeli sovereignty over much of the Middle East is an unprecedented departure from American foreign policy. It also goes well beyond what much of Israel’s far-right is willing to call for publicly.

Nearly every Middle Eastern country aside from Israel condemned Huckabee’s comments in a joint statement on Sunday.

In an interview with US conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, the ambassador was asked about his understanding of a biblical verse suggesting that land including parts of Egypt, Syria and Iraq had been divinely promised to the Jewish people.

The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

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Any sober analysis of America’s confrontation with Iran should tell us that the carrier battle groups can achieve no meaningful or positive political objectives should they be ordered to attack. The United States could order its land forces to somehow invade the country, but is there anyone who believes that such an extreme and unfathomable action would create a favorable outcome with what would be horrific costs?

Yet these considerations apparently remain lost to our political leaders — who cling to misguided beliefs that bombing and war will somehow create favorable outcomes — as undefined as those outcomes might be.

A woman who sought asylum in the United States after fleeing a country where homosexuality is illegal says the Trump administration's third-country deportation system sent her to another one

Today, Donald Trump held his first meeting of his new grifting bribe operation “Board of Peace,” the fake UN substitute he’s set up so corrupt world leaders, dictators and warlords — just the absolute most garbage leaders on the planet — can give him money while they all say “Board of Peace” a lot. Also he steals your money and gives it to himself, for “Board of Peace” purposes. 

During that meeting, he explained to the young, handsome 47-year-old leader of Paraguay that he’s not into him in that way. He only likes young, um, “women.”

“It’s always nice to be young and handsome. It doesn’t mean we have to like you. I don’t like young handsome men. Women? I like! [big laughs at own joke from star of Epstein Files].”

Was that the most awkward and creepy moment in the meeting, or just one in a meeting full of them? It was the second thing, of course. 

There was the moment when JD Vance told a “joke,” and even in that room of people who were lined up to lick Hitler’s asshole, he couldn’t even score a courtesy laugh, that’s how thoroughly off-putting and unlikeable he is. 

His “joke” was supposed to be at the expense of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose star turn at the Munich Security Conference has put so much fear of God into American Nazis and fascists that they’ve spent the entire past week focused on one small moment when she paused too long to give an answer. We would try to transcribe Couchy’s “joke,” but you really ought to experience the “please clap” and “you didn’t say thank you!” nature of it for yourself.

The rest of the meeting was the same as any other Trump gathering, because he’s needy, senile, feeble and stupid. He played the same shitty Trump basic grandpa bitch playlist he plays for everybody, everywhere. During “November Rain,” he asked his guests, like a basic grandpa bitch, if they liked the music, like Axl Rose’s power ballad is his own personal Lawrence Welk. 

He whined, whined, whined, whined, whined about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, while lying that he doesn’t care about the Nobel Peace Prize. 

He bragged about FIFA creating a pity peace prize for him, as if that is not the most embarrassing fucking thing in the world and any normal person wouldn’t die of humiliation if that happened to them. He referred to it as “their first peace prize,” as if the soccer guys are going to do this every year, like they didn’t run up in the attic to find something to give Trump and tell him it’s a “peace prize.” 

He told the gathered dictators, some of whom were from the Middle East, that there is peace in the Middle East. You know, except for that whole Gaza thing and the fact that he’s putting together weapons for more strikes on Iran. 

He continued to hallucinate about all the wars Stephen Miller (or someone) has convinced him that he’s ended. (He has ended zero wars, and everyone in that room knows it.)

He told weird lies about how often women go to see his shitty wife’s piece of shit movie.

He whined, whined, whined, whined, whined about the United Nations, and how they messed up his teleprompter, and how he ALMOST DIED trying to walk up their escalator. He has told this story 67,386,462 times, because his brain is nothing but grievances and pudding. 

He bragged about the Dow — THE DOW! THE DOW! — because “Board of Peace.” 

He bragged about his own corruption, then openly asked for some more people to bribe him, because it’s just that easy.

At the end of the meeting, all the gathered dictators and creeps got to go around and say their favorite things about Donald Trump, like a Mario Kart-dick-sucking Cabinet meeting with foreign accents! Trump appeared to doze off for much of it, because he’s not up to spending that much time doing things these days.

Department of Justice prosecutors across the US have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in their aggressive pursuit of criminal cases against people accused of “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers.

In recent months, the federal government has relentlessly prosecuted protesters, government critics, immigrants and others arrested during immigration operations, often accusing them of physically attacking officers or interfering with their duties.

But many of those cases have recently been dismissed or ended in not guilty verdicts.

In several high-profile cases, the prosecutions fell apart because they relied on statements by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers that had no supporting evidence or in some instances were proven by video footage to be blatantly false.

Criminal defense lawyers said it was unusual for federal prosecutors to pursue a high volume of charges over minor clashes with law enforcement, and that it was extraordinary to see the DoJ lose case after case across jurisdictions.

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect behind Trump’s tariffs.

Tension over how companies have responded to a surge in immigration enforcement is the climax of a yearslong reckoning with a local tradition of corporate social responsibility.

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