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ICE detains someone.
The person sues, says their detention is illegal.
DOJ says “we have no counter argument”.
Judge orders release.

It’s all about the bonus….

No for sure the fact that the kings of Wessex thought something was a royal prerogative is pretty strong evidence, why am I being a baby?

I was wrong, it’s in the part of the book discussing PRE CONQUEST England up to 1275. What does this add to anything?

explained that the "external executive power" included "the power of adjusting the rights of a nation in respect of ... trade." 2 Institutes of Natural Law 55-56 (1756); accord, Locke §146, at 383. The power to impose duties on imports was a conventional method for governing foreign trade. It originated Cite as: 607 U. S. (2026) 11 THOMAS, J., dissenting as a "prerogative right" of the King, N. Gras, Early English Customs System 21 (1918).3 2 The Due Process Clause likewise provides no basis

Ok look, I don’t know this book, but man would I be sure there is literally no other source under the sun before citing a history book from 1918. This isn’t some kind of contemporaneous legal analysis. It’s just a history monograph.

vast and dreadful scene of plunder between nation and nation. § 73. The However, as it is impossible for the best regulated state, acts of indi or for the most vigilant and absolute sovereign, to model at viduals are his pleasure all the actions of his subjects, and to confine not to be imputed to them on every occasion to the most exact obedience, it would the nation, be unjust to impute to the nation or the sovereign every fault committed by the citizens. We ought not, then, to say, in general, that we have received an injury from a nation because we have received it from one of its members. § 74. unless But, if a nation or its chief approves and ratifies the act it approves of the individual, it then becomes a public concern; and the or ratifies injured party is to consider the nation as the real author of them. the injury, of which the citizen was perhaps only the instru- §75. Con- ment. duct to be If the offended state has in her power the individual who the offended has done the injury, she may without scruple bring him to party. justice and punish him. If he has escaped and returned to

All Vattel says, as far as I can tell, is if you go abroad and cause trouble, your misconduct isn’t imputed to your country unless they ratify it. It’s just a chapter on vicarious liability of states. I also don’t really get the point, I was hoping reading Vattel would help, but no.

live Laws made by one nation. Locke g-+1, at 5ot. When a person goes abroad, he must resort to the political branches (and ultimately the military)-rather than the ju-diciary-for protection, can indebt the executive to foreign nations for his personal misconduct, and can trigger a foreign conflict. See Vattel 161-163, 281-289; 2 F. Wharton,

Anyway, I have no idea what Thomas means when he says a citizen can indebt the executive to a foreign sovereign for his personal misconduct.

subjects for the state has a right to expect more favour from it than the man who chooses to live for himself alone.* Every thing tending to depopulate a country is a defect in a state not overstocked with inhabitants. We have already spoken of convents and the celbacy of priests. It is strange that establishments so directly repugnant to the duties of a man and citizen, as well as to the advantage and safety of society, should have found such favour, and that princes, instead of opposing them, as it was their duty to do, should have protected and enriched them. A system of policy, that dex-trously took advantage of superstition to extend its own power,

Thomas keeps citing a 17th century treatise, Vattel, and I went to find it, and it definitely has some interesting commentary, such as this explanation that maybe priests violate the law of nations by not being fecund.

What a weird constitution that would be - we’re leaving the king because of his illegal taxes and we’re designing this whole system to keep the president from imposing taxes alone - but also maybe he can just tax everyone randomly because of his insane whims.

6The Court has even suggested that the President has inherent peacetime authority to impose duties on imports. After the Mexican-American War ended, executive officials imposed duties on imports at a California port within the United States before Congress had "passed an act to extend the collection of tonnage and import duties to the ports of Califor-nia." Cross v. Harrison, 16 How. 164, 190 (1854); see also id., at 192, 194-196. The executive officials unilaterally extended Congress's earlier

Literally everyone else in the case, including Trump/Sauer, concedes that the President has no inherent power to impose peacetime tariffs (which of course he does not). Justice Thomas is annoyed about that concession though!

must satisfy even if Congress is free to pass to him the power he seeks. Post, at 2-3. In fact, this Court has previously applied, with our colleague's assent, the major questions doctrine in a case that appears, under his present view, to involve a power that Congress could delegate wholesale to the President. See Nebraska, 600 U.S., at 486-488 (involving the power to cancel federal student loan debts, which on JUSTICE THOMAS's account presumably qualifies as a benefit or privilege, not a right to life, liberty, or property). And, just as the major questions doctrine precluded the executive branch's assertion of power in that case, it does so here. Second even when it comes to the nondeleration

Oh I’d also missed Gorsuch saying “how weird that Congress can accidentally delegate total tariffing power for any reason at any rate but not student loans?” To Thomas.

25 Some last points for completeness: The plaintiffs also raise two other arguments that the Court today does not address or rely on. First, they argue that Section 122, a non-emergency tariff statute that addresses trade deficits, implicitly displaces IEEPA's tariff authority. Second, they argue that the tariffs here do not deal with an "unusual and extraordinary threat" as to which a national emergency has been declared. In my view, those arguments are insubstantial, as Judge Taranto persuasively explained in the Federal Circuit. See 149 F. 4th 1312, 1359-1361, 1371-1375 (2025) (dissenting opinion). Because the Court today does not address or rely on them, I will not discuss them further here. Finally, I agree with footnote 1 of the

I’d missed this on the first read - Kavanaugh says the emergency argument is “insubstantial!”

I find this mystifying, *especially* if you think Congress delegated these powers contingent on certain conditions. Apparently the delegation is to be taken seriously, but the retained power is not.

asumelo Il. U Ularais. looloo. A seculu losue lo uie decision's effect on the current trade deals. Because IEEPA tariffs have helped facilitate trade deals worth trillions of dollars-including with foreign nations from China to the United Kingdom to Japan, the Court's decision could generate uncertainty regarding various trade agreements. That process, too, could be difficult. * *

As others have observed, this comment about “trillions” is totally made up. There are no trillions. They were at best aspirational goals, but really just ways for trading partners to trick Trump (“sure we commit to eleventy jillion of trade, no problem”)

That sort of BS argument that maybe the tariffs were actually a license dropped out entirely, I notice.

Congress's delegation here was constitutional. The statute at issue in these cases, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, delegates to the President a wide range of powers over foreign commerce. IEEPA gives the President, on conditions satisfied here, the power to "regu-late" foreign commerce, including "importation" of foreign property. 50 U. S. C. §1702(a)(1)(B). TEEPA's deleration of nower to impose duties on imports

I’m reading the opinions again. This is Thomas.

What are the conditions that are satisfied here, you wonder?

A totally made up national emergency sprouted from the forehead of the grand loon of Mar a Lago!

"It's not really a big win against Trump" because [list of grievances] is a little tiresome. It's a big win against a truly tyrannical claim by the president. The fight continues.

Lol this thing isn’t just prospective, is it?

Yes like every other lawyer in America I’m reading about tariffs right now.

homer simpson and bart simpson are sitting on a couch with the words join us on the bottom ALT: homer simpson and bart simpson are sitting on a couch with the words join us on the bottom

All lawyers in the United States are reading a tax opinion today.
All tax lawyers:

One thing I love about the Olympics is you can watch a sport you know nothing about and just on vibes realize “that was special”.

That’s how I felt watching Liu’s skate. I know nothing about figure skating or what makes a “good” skate beyond “don’t fall”, but it just *radiated* amazingness.

It's so mean of him to embarrass Lindsey Graham by telling this story so publicly this way

Dr. Dunning and Dr. Kruger are calling on line one, sir

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True. But this is a basic perspective of fascism, what Carl Schmitt called the "Freund-Feind-Verhältnis." Either you obey and follow the Leader without question, or you are an enemy and must be disparaged, damned, destroyed.