Justice #Kagan says #Congress, not the president, had the power to #tax & regulate foreign commerce.
Justice #Sotomayor is pressing the government on the fact that #tariffs are a form of #taxation, which rests in the hands of lawmakers to enact. “It’s a congressional power, not a presidential power, to tax,” she said.
Sauer argues that what is at issue in this case is not the “power to tax,” an authority given to Congress, but the ability to regulate foreign powers.
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中央通訊社 2025-11-03 10:38:00 CST土耳其發現 1250 萬公噸稀土蘊藏，若獲證實，可望成全球第三大蘊藏國。土國正尋求外國技術合作以建立本土產能，目標躋身主要生產國之列，並規劃於 2027 年後投產。Justice #Kagan is pointing out that Section 2 of the #VotingRightsAct is not aimed at preventing #racial #discrimination that comes as an effect of #redistricting, regardless of its intent by map drawers.
“Section 2 is not about intentional discrimination. Section 2 is about effects,” Kagan says.
#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
Nelson pushed back. It’s not #discrimination for states to keep race in mind as they draw voting districts to comply with the #VRA & ensure representation for minority votes, she argued.
Under questioning from Justice Elena #Kagan, Nelson describes as “catastrophic” the impact of Secton 2 of the #VotingRightsAct ceasing to prevent vote dissolution, including in legislative districts beyond #Congress.
#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
The 3 tend to take somewhat different approaches. #Kagan has typically focused on exposing the majority’s shoddy reasoning, #Sotomayor has underscored its complicity in wrong, & #Jackson has placed it within larger systems of oppression. One might think…that everything is as it should be: #SCOTUS takes cases. It hears arguments, & it votes. Those on the losing end dissent. One can read the majority opinion & the dissent, & see reasonable people disagreeing courteously & reasonably.
The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something
Justices #Kagan, #Jackson, & #Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the #law.
By Aziz Huq
In recent #SCOTUS terms, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, & Ketanji Brown Jackson have issued defiant dissents that push back against a seemingly endless cascade of conservative opinions.
What the order did not include was any explanation of why the court had ruled as it did. It was an exercise of #power, not reason.
The silence was even more striking in the face of a 19-page dissent by Justice Sonia #Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena #Kagan and Ketanji Brown #Jackson.
“The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naïve,” Sotomayor wrote, “but either way the threat to our #Constitution’s #SeparationOfPowers is grave.”
#Sotomayor dissent joined by #Kagan & #Jackson: “The reverberations of the Court’s error will be felt, I fear, for generations. Unable to condone that grave misjudgment, I dissent.”
#law #SCOTUS #PublicSchool #schools #education #LGBTQ+ #censorship #bigotry
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#Kagan writes: "Under our #nondelegation precedents, #Congress sufficiently guided & constrained the discretion that it lodged with the #FCC to implement the universal-service contribution scheme. And the FCC, in turn, has retained all decision-making authority within that sphere, relying on the ‘corporation’ only for nonbinding advice. Nothing in those arrangements, either separately or together, violates the Constitution."
#law #SCOTUS #ERate #phone #internet #subsidies #LowIncome
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