TRUMP'S (AND AMERICA'S) VERY GOOD WEEK

With a burst of Supreme Court decisions and economic data, the sun is shining.

It wasn’t that President Trump or the USA were having a bad week before Friday, but there had been some hiccups, including the Court of international Trade forbidding Trump to do tariff deals. This lasted about as long as free beer at a tailgate party.

First, no sooner was the morning’s egg stain dry on the Court’s gowns than Trump’s team launched there separate appeals, of which one went directly to the Supes and one went to an appeals court. It was a shotgun response—-though that’s not to say that every one of the appeals was not legitimate—-designed to elicit the fastest possible action. Said action came from the Fifth Circuit yesterday, who reopened the tariff-negotiating table.

The Supes had already ruled in a nondescript EPA case that the “good neighbor” lawsuits trying to force EPA limits on states such as OH for “downwind pollution” was rejected and the Court curbed the power of the EPA to regulate water.