The bench won’t be bullied by that bully pulpit

Beechhurst: In its majority 6-3 ruling in the Learning Resources, Inc. vs. Trump case, the Supreme Court justices utilized the court’s major questions doctrine (based on the principle of administration law requiring agencies to have clear, explicit congressional authorization when regulating matters of vast economic or political significance) to strike down the administration’s unity-executive-theory overreach with respect to its unlimited implementation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (1977) to carry out the across-the-board and willy-nilly whims of “Tariff Man” (“The court says no to Trump,” editorial, Feb. 22).

Just as in West Virginia vs. EPA (2022), where the court, utilizing the aforementioned major doctrine questions doctrine, ruled that the President Barack Obama-era Clean Power Plan exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency’s power under the Clean Air Act, the Supremes in this equally profound tariff case upheld our bedrock constitutional principle of separation of powers.

At one point in 47’s State of the Union speech, when he vociferously voiced his disdain for the court’s decision, the cameras zoomed in on the faces of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who didn’t do what the big guy wanted.

Their steely expressions said it all: Sorry, Charlie — here in America, we do not abide any kings. James Hyland

Yonkers: President Trump’s SOTU proved that the Democrats hate Trump more than they love America. They are fueled by hatred, greed and corruption and do not care about America or what is good for it. Chuck Schumer, you are a disgrace and the epitome of a........

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