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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social

1/blockbuster decision on Trump tariffs. Regardless of what happens at the Supreme Court, stretching national security laws to their limit, Trump has put the cornerstone of US coercion at risk. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

aug 30, 2025, 12:57 am • 44 12

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social

2/For decades, US grew its economic security state out of national security law and courts deferred. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

aug 30, 2025, 12:59 am • 6 0 • view
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social

3/Administration after administration passed off the tools and built bureaucratic capacity. Trump stripped out the experts and turned coercion into an all purpose ratchet. now the courts have called him on it. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

aug 30, 2025, 1:02 am • 13 2 • view
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social

4/regardless of how Supreme Court lands, increasingly clear that courts want in on the action and that will gum up our response to real national security crises. michiganlawreview.org/journal/the-...

aug 30, 2025, 1:13 am • 5 1 • view
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Johnnybee @alicethewonderdog.bsky.social

Bought and paid for SCOTUS will rubber stamp trumps ability to tariff all he likes. They are pro-emperor.

aug 30, 2025, 11:44 am • 0 0 • view