placeholder.But those rulings were placeholders. The tariffs decision was the first time the court issued a final judgment about the legality of a piece of Mr. Trump’s agenda.

 

The separation has been less clear in the court’s other recent interactions with Mr. Trump.

In the months before the president returned to office, the court divided along ideological lines when it granted Mr. Trump substantial immunity from prosecution. Since then, the court’s conservative majority has signed off on most of his emergency requests, temporarily allowing him to fire independent agency leaders without cause, remove transgender troops from the military and remove deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants.

在總統重返辦公室前的幾個月裡，法院在給予川普先生實質的豁免權時，因意識形態分歧而分裂。此後，法院的保守派多數批准了他的大部分緊急請求，暫時允許他無故解僱獨立機構領導人、將跨性別士兵從軍隊中移除，並取消數十萬移民的遣返保護。

這些命令並未正式簽署，但保守派大法官很少公開表示他們不同意讓川普先生如願以償。

Those orders were unsigned, but members of the conservative bloc rarely noted that they disagreed with giving Mr. Trump his way.

But those rulings were placeholders. The tariffs decision was the first time the court issued a final judgment about the legality of a piece of Mr. Trump’s agenda.但這些裁決只是權宜之計。關稅裁決是法院首次就川普先生的某項政策的合法性做出最終判決。

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