Resist Schadenfreude to Make Common Cause with the Federalist Society

Here's a recent social media post from President Trump: As the foregoing rant makes clear, the occasion for Trump's turn against Leonard Leo, some of the judges Trump appointed in his first term, and the Federalist Society was the fact that some of those people believe that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not grant the president the authority to impose the sweeping tariffs Trump imposed. Given the Federal Circuit's stay of the ruling by the Court of International Trade, it is possible that Trump will eventually win this particular battle, although his social media post contains numerous falsehoods. Trump's tariffs were never going to bring in trillions of dollars, much less was any money from tariffs going to come "from other countries." And, of course, Trump's view of presidential powers reflects no familiarity with the Constitution. Even if one thinks that the IEEPA does grant Trump the tariff power he thinks it does, that wo...