The Supreme Court majority's nightmare is President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Justice Neil Gorsuch worries about giving presidents too much power
It was a coincidence that the U.S. Supreme Court happened to hear a major challenge to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the morning after Democrats routed Republicans in the off-year elections. But certainly the blow-out results in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City had to disturb the tranquility of at least a few of the court’s six conservative justices.
The court’s majority has come to the rescue of the Trump administration when lower courts stayed its flagrant assertions of presidential power. Even before Trump took office, the court declared in Trump v. United States that presidents have absolute immunity when acting in their official capacity. On the court’s docket for this term are cases that could grant Trump the power to remove the members of independent agencies, including the Federal Reserve Bank, and to redefine the meaning of “birthright citizenship.”
But what if the presiden…
