Notable Quotes
Early American legislatures recognized that habitual drunkards present heightened dangers of crime and violence. They classified drunkards as criminal vagrants subject to confinement in jail or workhouses. — Government's merits brief
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.”