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John Roberts

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John Roberts is the Chief Justice of the United States.

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"The fact that no President has ever found such power in IEEPA is strong evidence that it does not exist."
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"the president must 'point to clear congressional authorisation' to justify his extraordinary assertion of the power to impose tariffs"
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"IEEPA contains no reference to tariffs or duties. The Government points to no statute in which Congress used the word 'regulate' to authorize taxation."
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""The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch.""
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""Absent from this lengthy list of specific powers is any mention of tariffs or duties.""
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"Our task today is to decide only whether the power to 'regulate ... importation,' as granted to the president in IEEPA, embraces the power to impose tariffs. It does not."
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""The fact that no President has ever found such power in IEEPA is strong evidence that it does not exist.""
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"IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs."
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""In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it.""
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""The president must 'point to clear congressional authorization' to justify his extraordinary assertion of the power to impose tariffs.""
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"The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch."
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"Absent from this lengthy list of specific powers is any mention of tariffs or duties."
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"The Government thus concedes that the President enjoys no inherent authority to impose tariffs during peacetime."
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"the vehicle is the imposition of taxes on Americans, and that has always been a core power of Congress."
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"The framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the executive branch."
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"No President has invoked the statute to impose any tariffs, let alone tariffs of this magnitude and scope."
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"To us it felt a little off - the fact that we were on the one strip reserved for walking, and we were having to get out of the way."
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"does not authorize the President to impose tariffs."
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"Because these commissioners exercise executive power, they must ultimately answer to the president."
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"Subordinates who exercise the president's power are subject to removal by him."
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"Cook deserved a chance to challenge her removal and rebut Trump's accusations."
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"Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights - to freely participate in our political community."
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"to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment."
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