Notable Quotes
The statute empowers the president to regulate imports during declared national emergencies, and that authority encompasses tariffs. Unwinding this would require refunding trillions and could bankrupt the government.
If courts ruled the tariff powers illegal, it would open the door to ruthless trade retaliation and result in ruinous economic and national security consequences.
“Unelected judges” don’t get to “update the intent of unchanged statutes.” (Quoted in government stay papers, echoing Fourth Circuit debate)
“Humphrey’s must be overruled.” — Sauer at the outset of Supreme Court arguments in Trump v. Slaughter.
He has argued that existing precedent “continues to tempt Congress to erect, at the heart of our government, a headless fourth branch insulated from political accountability.”
"The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause was adopted to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves and their children — not to the children of aliens illegally or temporarily in the United States," Sauer wrote in the administration’s petition.([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/873a45bc58de9e92773f554bf5bba9a0))