::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

  Supreme Court’s Ruling on Trump’s Tariffs The Court ruled 6–3 that Trump exceeded his authority when he used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose broad tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners. The majority held that IEEPA—passed in 1977 to address extraordinary foreign threats—does not give a president unlimited power to reshape global trade policy. The justices concluded that Trump’s sweeping tariffs went far beyond what Congress intended when it granted emergency economic powers. The ruling invalidated the bulk of Trump’s IEEPA‑based tariffs, a major blow to one of the central pillars of his economic strategy. Several reports described it as a rare instance of the conservative‑leaning Court reining in Trump’s executive authority. What the Trade Office Said in Response The administration’s trade officials acknowledged that the ruling affects tariffs imposed under IEEPA but emphasized that not all of Trump’s tariffs were struck down . They not...

buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin The word around Washington is that the Trump Administration has allegedly been sending signals to  Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to resign. It had been strongly rumored that Kennedy, the swing voter of the High Court, would retire at the end of the current term. Kennedy, 80, put those rumors to rest late last year saying he was not retiring. This means that the  stay on the Travel Ban Executive Order that is currently being challenged in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, should it meet its potential end in the Supreme Court, could get Kennedy's vote and break the probable tie. The four liberal judges would likely support cancelling the ban and the four conservatives would vote to keep it leaving the call in Kennedy's hands who could vote either way, but likely to vote against it. That's one of the considerations for now. The installment of "universally" accepted Neil Gorsuch to the High Court was to be the s...