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The supreme court’s tariffs ruling puts Trump on notice with a bloody nose

After an agonising year in which the US supreme court has stood aside and watched while Donald Trump has run roughshod over the constitutional separation of powers, the highest judicial panel has finally stirred itself to set boundaries on the president’s increasingly regal pose.

With midterm elections just nine months away, Trump has also been deprived of a key weapon in his second-presidency armory. The ruling came as a jolt, and Trump wasted no time venting his fury against the justices who had defied him. He denigrated them on social media in an all-caps personalised attack that was extraordinary, even by his norm-shattering standards.

Friday’s ruling puts Trump on notice. Though the president responded to the ruling as though he were impervious, immediately announcing a new raft of tariffs under different legislative authority, the court has made itself clear: there is a limit.

But those tempted to be starry-eyed about this juncture should also be put on notice. There is a limit too to the supreme court’s beneficence.

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