The constitutional confrontation over executive power
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The thermostat is active: constitutional crisis is metabolised as political drama, because the alternative — recognising that the operating system is under stress — activates too much anxiety.
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— the Supreme Court's tariff ruling is not a single event but a node in a longer arc. Six-to-three, the Court ruled that IEEPA does not authorise presidential tariffs, that the power to tax belongs to Congress. Trump's immediate workaround via an obscure 1974 provision will itself face legal challenge. The deeper signal: the administrative state built over eight decades is encountering its constitutional limits, and the collision is no longer theoretical. What the collective gaze reaches for: p ...
The thermostat is active: constitutional crisis is metabolised as political drama, because the alternative — recognising that the operating system is under stress — activates too much anxiety.