‘Trump will no longer be able to honor many of the ”deals” he has negotiated’: How the Supreme Court crippled America’s negotiator-in-chief

In a huge blow to the executive branch’s authority over global commerce, the Supreme Court handed down a 6–3 decision today declaring President Trump’s sweeping use of emergency powers to enact tariffs fundamentally illegal. The ruling immediately imperils the cornerstone of the administration’s economic strategy, transforming America’s negotiator-in-chief into a leader stripped of his most potent leverage.

This is because the majority of Trump’s tariffs were deployed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)...