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Where is the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s tariffs?

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By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst

(CNN) — When the Supreme Court agreed last September to hear a dispute over President Donald Trump’s billion-dollar tariffs on foreign goods, it heeded the administration’s plea that time was of the essence.

To Trump, the case is a matter of “LIFE OR DEATH for our Country,” as he wrote on social media. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that the US is “on the brink” and “the longer a final ruling is delayed, the greater the risk of economic disruption.”

The court imposed a fast-track briefing schedule and held oral arguments on November 5. That session exposed multiple sticking points among the justices, but the public’s expectation of a relatively quick resolution endured.

As global markets churn and American consumers anticipate even pricier goods, the question persists: Does the president have this tariff authority or not? And when will the Supreme Court tell everyone?

The urgency has been heightened by Trump’s Monday announcement of increased tariffs on goods from South Korea, from 15% to 25%, and last week’s initial threat of new tariffs against European nations that refused to back his plan to control the Danish territory of Greenland. (He backed down from the tariff threat by mid-week.)

The nine justices have begun a recess and are next scheduled to take the bench and possibly issue opinions on February 20. They could interrupt this recess if a decision was finished before then. But such a move would be highly unusual.

Lawyers have advised clients to be patient.

“We’ve said, ‘We know you’re all frustrated. You want a resolution immediately,’” said Oliver Dunford, a Pacific Legal Foundation attorney who filed a “friend of the court” brief on behalf of Princess Awesome children’s clothing and other small US businesses. “But in terms of litigation, this is really, really fast. Getting to the Supreme Court in a matter of months is really fast.”

Dunford, like many lawyers involved in the case, had thought the ruling might have come by now. So did the news media. Throughout January, the financial press, especially, ran weekly stories with such headlines as “No Ruling on Trump Tariffs”, “Supreme Court Doesn’t Rule on Tariffs” and “Is Trump Tariff Supreme Court Ruling Today?”

Asked Tuesday about a possible loss at the Supreme Court, Trump said on Fox News, “We will find something, some other way of doing a similar thing, but it’ll be more inconvenient.” His emergency tariffs are generating tens of billions of dollars for the US Treasury each month.

There are some explanations for the wait, beginning with the sheer difficulty of a case. The justices during oral arguments appeared conflicted over when a president can seize Congress’ usual tariff power. Trump has asserted authority under a 1977 law intended for international economic emergencies.

Then there’s the reality of no hard and fast deadline. In the past, when the justices dashed out rulings, there was a looming external deadline. Last year, for example, the court swiftly heard arguments and resolved a dispute over a federal law that required Chinese divestment of TikTok. The Read more

“Todos tenemos que ser valientes”: Conozca a la mujer cuyo video de la muerte de Alex Pretti contradijo versión del Gobierno

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Por Michael Williams, CNN

Se suponía que Stella Carlson pasaría la mañana del sábado pintando caras de niños en una iglesia. Habría sido un contraste bienvenido con la avalancha de semanas de control inmigratorio federal y las protestas que han abrumado su hogar en las Ciudades Gemelas -Minneapolis–Saint Paul.

Para Carlson, participar activamente en su comunidad es importante, y había pasado las últimas tres semanas aprendiendo sobre la ayuda mutua y participando en iniciativas comunitarias para advertir a sus vecinos sobre la inminente acción federal en materia de inmigración.

La muerte a tiros de Renee Good a manos de un agente del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) a principios de este mes demostró a Carlson y a otros habitantes de Minnesota que el peligro potencial como observador no era algo abstracto.

“Sé que cada vez que salgo de mi vehículo o de mi casa y me pongo ese silbato, sé por Renee Good, el riesgo”, confesó a Anderson Cooper de CNN durante una entrevista el martes. “Creo que todos lo supimos después de que eso ocurriera, ahora estamos en ese punto, y podría ser cualquiera de nosotros”.

Pero ella no tenía forma de saber que pronto vería morir a un hombre, o que su video de ese incidente fatal serviría como un contrataque crucial a los esfuerzos iniciales de la administración Trump de pintar a Alex Pretti como un aspirante a asesino o terrorista interno.

De camino al trabajo, y vistiendo una chaqueta rosa que sería inmediatamente reconocible en otros videos del incidente, Carlson escuchó el sonido de silbatos que se han convertido en la advertencia omnipresente de la llegada de los funcionarios de inmigración.

Condujo por la avenida Nicollet y presenció lo que describió como una pelea callejera. Pensó en Good, quien también conducía su coche cuando recibió el disparo mortal. Fue entonces cuando vio por primera vez a Pretti dirigiendo el tráfico.

“Me pareció que era alguien, en mi opinión, desde mi experiencia, que estaba haciendo una evaluación de riesgos y encontró su lugar en ese momento de ser útil”, manifestó sobre Pretti.

Carlson salió de su auto y comenzó a grabar.

El video que Carlson grabó muestra que Pretti, quien tenía permiso para portar una pistola oculta, nunca blandió su arma, como afirmó inicialmente la secretaria del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, Kristi Noem (Carlson afirmó que ni siquiera sabía que Pretti estaba armado hasta después de que le dispararan, y que no se habría acercado tanto de haberlo sabido).

Tampoco se acercó a las fuerzas del orden con la intención de matarlas, como también afirmó Stephen Miller, el artífice de la política migratoria de la Casa Blanca.

En cambio, el video de Carlson mostró que el enfermero de UCI, de 37 años, que atendía a veteranos pasó sus últimos momentos intentando ayudar a una mujer que había sido derribada.

El video también mostró que un agente sacó la pistola de Pretti de su funda segundos antes de inmovilizarlo y dispararle varias veces, incluso en la espalda.

“Recuerdo que arqueaba la espalda y echaba la cabeza hacia atrás”, dijo Carlson. Había visto morir a gente en hospicios y dijo que, al ver a Pretti, supo que no iba a sobrevivir.

“Sabía que se había ido porque lo vi”, recontó. “Y luego se acercaron para intentar realizarle algún tipo de asistencia médica rasgándole la ropa con tijeras y moviéndolo como un muñeco de trapo, solo para descubrir que podría ser porque querían contar las heridas de bala para ver cuántas tenía, como si fuera un ciervo”.

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U.S. Women’s Soccer crushes Chile in front of sold out crowd at UCSB

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Jameese Joseph scored her first international goal for the U.S.

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - The United States Women's National Team put on quite a show at Harder Stadium with plenty of fireworks and even a much-talked about dance routine.

Croix Bethune, Jameese Joseph and Emily Sams all scored their first international goals and the United States went on to beat Chile 5-0 on Tuesday night in front of 14,797 fans at UCSB.

Emma Sears and Trinity Rodman also scored for the United States, which hasn’t conceded a goal in five matches.

Coach Emma Hayes went with a completely different starting lineup in the match at UC Santa Barbara than the one she used on Saturday for the team’s 6-0 victory over Paraguay in Carson, California. Players on the roster averaged 5.2 national team appearances, fewest for a lineup since 2001.

“I think in both games, the team, regardless of its inexperience as a collective, regardless of the connections that are there because they haven’t played together before, I think they showed an awful lot of maturity in the performance, and that’s all I can ask from them,” Hayes said. “They always do me proud. But I’m impressed by everybody’s approach.”

Bethune, who plays for the Washington Spirit, opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Chile goalkeeper Ryann Torrero came out to stop Bethune, who was rushing at the goal alone, but the strike got past her.

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Joseph, who plays for the Chicago Stars, earned her first start for the United States and scored in the 26th minute.

(Emily Sams, serving as captain, scored in the 33rd minute to put the U.S. up 3-0 in the first half. Entenza Design).

The United States made it 4-0 just 28 seconds into the second half with a goal from Sears that went to the far post and into the upper corner. Rodman scored in her second straight match in the 68th minute, just five minutes after she came on.

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‘We all have to be brave’: Meet the woman whose video of Alex Pretti’s killing contradicted the administration’s claims

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Stella Carlson talks with CNN's Anderson Cooper during an exclusive interview.


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By Michael Williams, CNN

(CNN) — Stella Carlson was supposed to spend Saturday morning painting children’s faces at a church. It would have been a welcome contrast to the weekslong onslaught of federal immigration enforcement and protests that have overwhelmed her home in the Twin Cities.

Being an active participant in her community is important for Carlson, and she had spent the last three weeks learning about mutual aid and participating in grassroots efforts to warn her neighbors of impending federal immigration action. The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer earlier this month proved to Carlson and other Minnesotans that the potential for danger as an observer was not abstract.

“I know every time I leave my vehicle or leave my house and I put that whistle around my neck, I know because of Renee Good, the risk,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper during an interview Tuesday. “I think we all knew after that happened, it is now at that point, and it could be any of us.”

But she had no way of knowing that she would soon watch a man die — or that her video of that fatal incident would serve as a crucial counter to the Trump administration’s initial efforts to paint Alex Pretti as a wannabe assassin or domestic terrorist.

On her way to work, and wearing a pink jacket that would become instantly recognizable from other videos of the incident, Carlson heard the sound of whistles that have become the ubiquitous warning of the arrival of immigration officers.

She drove down Nicollet Avenue and saw what she described as a brawl in the street. She thought of Good, who was also driving her car when she was fatally shot. This was when she first noticed Pretti directing traffic.

“It felt like somebody in my opinion, in my background, who was doing a risk assessment and found his place in this moment to be useful,” she said of Pretti.

Carlson got out of her car and began recording.

The video Carlson took showed that Pretti, who had a permit to carry a concealed pistol, never brandished his gun, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem first claimed he did (Carlson said she didn’t even know Pretti had been armed until after he was shot, and wouldn’t have gotten so close if she had known). Nor did he approach law enforcement with the intent to assassinate them, as Stephen Miller, the architect of the White House’s immigration policy, also claimed.

Instead, Carlson’s video showed that the 37-year-old ICU nurse who treated veterans spent his last moments trying to help a woman who had been knocked down.

The video also showed that Pretti’s handgun had been removed from its holster by an officer seconds before he was pinned down and shot multiple times, including in his back.

“I remember him arching his back and his head rolling back,” Carlson said. She

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