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In recent weeks, a slew of court rulings have taken their shot at derailing Donald Trump’s second term agenda. From the ability to deport migrants to the ability to impose tariffs or have mass firings from government positions, the majority of these rulings will likely end up in front of the Supreme Court, which has become the arbiter in deciding what Trump can and can’t do as the appeals of the lower court ruling suddenly end up on their docket. Ari Hoffman is the associate editor of the New York Sun; he appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to discuss how using the courts to plot America’s course means nobody will be satisfied.
Hoffman explained to host Larry Mendte that the Supreme Court may have to decide if the lower courts have overstepped their bounds to the detriment of Trump’s vision of America’s collective place in the world: “What the Trump administration is arguing is, this is an arm of foreign policy. The ability to impose tariffs is really tied to America’s interaction with the world… We’ll see if the Supreme Court agrees, but certainly the question of who can impose tariffs is one that I think the Trump administration is willing to go all the way on. This is not really something they can compromise on; it’s really at the core of how the President sees the world and sees America in the world.”
Hoffman also addressed Sunday’s terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado on a vigil supporting the release of the Israeli hostages; he doesn’t see a peaceful resolution to the Free Palestine movement: “I think we’re going to see more Jewish-Americans arm themselves, honestly, under the Second Amendment and sort of take security into their own hands… there are significant strands of this Free Palestine- whatever you want to call it- movement that are violent and are ready to bring that violence to citizens here in America.”
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