When the levy brakes: Trump’s tariffs struck down

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm your host Jason Palmer.

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  Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  A surging populist right movement in Australia is now the best polling conservative party in the country.

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  And that is picking away at one of the most persistent coalitions in the Western world.

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  And you can't argue that Agatha Christie wasn't prolific,

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  but plenty have argued that she wasn't actually all that good.

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  Our culture correspondent digs into the secrets of her enduring success.

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  But first.

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  On Friday, the Supreme Court kicked hard at one of the legs of Donald Trump's presidency.

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  Mr. Trump had invoked a 1970s era law,

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  the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA,

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  claiming it allowed him to set tariffs whenever and on whichever country he liked.

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  Six of the nine justices, including three conservatives, said, nope.

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  The peacetime power to set taxes lies with Congress.

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  Instituting and enforcing those tariffs was messy, to say the least.

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  Unwinding them, refunding them will be messier still.

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  And Mr. Trump, never one to take a court defeat gracefully,

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  has more taxing tricks at the ready.

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