Tariff ruling rips open Trump’s relationship with Roberts court

Wall Street Journal: “It’s almost Greek tragedy that Roberts, who has often endorsed expansive presidential power, including in the immunity opinion, is confronted by a president who is not only happy to take that to the far extreme, but doesn’t accept any constraints,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Other tests loom for the relationship between the president and the chief.

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In the next few months, the court will rule on another one of Trump’s assertions of power: his bid to remake the Federal Reserve by firing one of its governors. And it will also soon take up a cornerstone of Trump’s immigration agenda, his attempt to eliminate automatic birthright citizenship…