Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources v. Trump that repealed President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Brent Skorup, a legal fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, released a new blog arguing that this decision was never about just tariffs; it was about executive overreach, writing in part:

“The Court in Learning Resources drew a line. It refused to read sweeping economic powers into a statute that doesn’t clearly grant them, and it applied that discipline in a foreign-affairs context where it has historically been most reluctant to do so. That’s a meaningful development in the Court’s originalist project — a check not just on this president’s tariff powers but also on the system of emergency governance that every future president will inherit.”

To speak with Skorup about the court’s decision in Learning Resources v. Trump, contact Christopher Tarvardian.