About half of Trump's tariffs are now null and void - but his trade war is not over

In one respect this decision is not altogether surprising.The way the Supreme Court hearings were going, this seemed the most likely decision from the US judiciary. Even so, it's an enormous blow to the Trump regime.The best place to begin understanding this is to go all the way back in history to the US constitution.At the heart of it was the notion that the president should not have the unilateral power to set taxes which, back then at least, mostly consisted of tariffs. Tariffs, in other words, needed to ...