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South Carolina’s Republican governor is celebrating the ruling allowing states to block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services.
La mayoría de la Corte Suprema no detalló su razonamiento en su resumen breve, como es habitual. Los tres jueces liberales no estuvieron de acuerdo.
The high court majority did not detail its reasoning in the brief order, as is typical on its emergency docket. All three liberal justices dissented.
The company argues the president illegally imposed tariffs under an emergency powers law rather than getting approval from Congress.
At least seven lawsuits are challenging the levies, the centerpiece of Trump’s trade policy. Trump has said he has the power to act because the country’s trade deficits amount to a national emergency.
The lawsuit filed by Democratic officials in 19 states, including Illinois, seeks to block key aspects of Trump’s executive order, including new requirements that people provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote and a demand that all mail ballots be received by Election Day.
In a Tuesday morning social media post, Trump described U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg as an unelected “troublemaker and agitator.”
The spotlight on the judiciary is brighter because the Republican-controlled Congress has essentially abdicated its role of serving as a check on the presidency. That leaves only the courts as a potential guardrail on the president’s ambitions.
U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell found there’s evidence that some federal grants and loans are still not going out to the recipients and ordered that the cash be released.
The Trump administration’s move could result in a constitutional clash over control of taxpayer money and expansion of executive power, with the Supreme Court serving as referee.