Colby Cosh: The U.S. president breaks his own laws in waging the trade war
Last year, as faithful readers will recall, the president of the United States went haywire and imposed new tariffs on Canada by unilateral fiat.
And while other commentators were endlessly analyzing Canadian trade strategy and U.S. electoral politics, I was reading treatises by crazy American libertarian lawyers and asking the question “Can he actually do that?” The answer , once it got to the Supreme Court, turned out to be “no, mostly,” with a 6-3 finding against the president.
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