The commerce secretary has no control over what the Supreme Court does. Anyone could have read the law and decided whether they thought the tariffs were legal or not.

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hermanzegerman a day ago | parent | next [-]

The commerce secretary has in this case a huge conflict of interest in pushing for these illegal policies in the first place

	▲	AnimalMuppet a day ago \| parent [-]
		The commerce secretary wasn't the one pushing for them in the first place. The president was. I mean, look, there's plenty of conflicts of interest, and stuff that sure looks like graft, and claims of people making insane amounts of money off of stuff. But in this case, the commerce secretary's options were 1) do the tariffs or 2) get fired. Minion? Sure. Minion without the self-respect or ethics to quit when they were being told to do unconstitutional stuff? Also sure. Pushing these policies, as though they had agency in the matter? No.

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simmerup a day ago | parent | prev [-]

But he does know that Trump had no plan to contest the supreme court or make new laws

	▲	NetMageSCW a day ago \| parent [-]
		Trump doesn’t have those powers.