{"id":143422,"date":"2026-02-20T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143422"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:43:34","slug":"a-nyt-article-on-the-supreme-court-decision-today-to-reject-president-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143422","title":{"rendered":"A NYT article on the Supreme Court Decision Today to reject President Trump’s tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Starting with the 2024 decision<\/a> that gave President Trump substantial immunity from prosecution and continuing through a score of emergency orders provisionally greenlighting an array of his second-term initiatives, Mr. Trump has had an extraordinarily successful run before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That came to a sudden, jolting halt on Friday, when Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for six members of the court, roundly rejected Mr. Trump\u2019s signature tariffs program. It was the Supreme Court\u2019s first merits ruling \u2014 a final judgment on the lawfulness of an executive action \u2014 on an element of the administration\u2019s second-term agenda. It amounted to a declaration of independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also served as another in a series of clashes between the leaders of two branches of the federal government cut from very different cloth: the controlled, cerebral chief justice and the biting, brazen president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>

The Supreme Court\u2019s Declaration of Independence https:\/\/t.co\/c3j3a7tlnQ<\/a> via @NYTimes<\/a><\/p>— Luba Howard 🇺🇦 (@marynlm) February 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>