Supreme Court
The Invention Invention adds the Court through the glass-container patent-pool case. The source says the Court found the pool’s output restriction, price fixing, and competitor blocking unlawful under the Sherman Antitrust Act, helping establish the fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory licensing logic later captured by FRAND Licensing.
How we got free agents in baseball adds the Court through Flood v. Kuhn, where Curt Flood challenged MLB’s reserve clause. The source says the Court ruled against Flood and left the baseball antitrust exemption in place, but that the case still helped shift public opinion and labor leverage toward free agency.
A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch adds the Court through a 2006 ayahuasca religious-exemption decision. The source says the Court agreed that the government had not shown enough harm or diversion risk in that case, making it a precedent signal for Religious Controlled-Substance Exemption claims by newer Psychedelic Churches.
How online age-gating laws went mainstream this year adds the Court to the Online Age Verification branch. Drew Harwell says a Texas explicit-content age-verification law reached the Court, and the episode treats the ruling as a legal signal that made lawmakers more aggressive about requiring websites to check whether users are old enough.
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump’s tariffs. Now what? resolves the tariff-authority watchpoint from Indicators of 2025 and What to Watch in 2026 inside the source set. The Court struck down Donald Trump’s sweeping IEPA-based tariffs, making IEPA Tariff Authority Limit a concrete limit on one emergency-power route while leaving Section 122 Tariff Authority and other tariff statutes available.
sp.05 【刘擎x林垚】"枪杀医保巨头"案背后的思考（下）：分裂的美国会有宪政危机吗？ adds the Court to the state-experimentation problem. 林垚 notes that Supreme Court review can correctly strike down unconstitutional state laws while still reducing the older reform path in which state-level experiments spread upward into federal change.
The Supreme Court appears in The 250-year experiment: America’s birthday as a disputed guardrail in the U.S. democratic system. Robert Guest treats the Court as evidence that American Democratic Resilience still has institutional force because it can constrain presidential overreach. Daniel Knowles reads recent Court behavior more darkly, arguing that votes around executive power suggest constitutional limits are becoming weaker.
The source’s main contribution is not a doctrinal account of specific cases, but a governance question: when courts ratify new presidential powers, they may create Executive Power Precedent that survives the president who first benefits from it. That makes the Court part of the wiki’s wider institutional-design thread rather than only a legal actor.
173.弹劾：如何罢免一位总统 adds the Court’s impeachment-procedure role. In presidential impeachment trials, the Chief Justice presides in the Senate, which keeps Presidential Impeachment from being framed as a purely legislative confidence vote even though conviction remains a Senate decision.
Jerome Powell and the Test of Fed Independence adds a Federal Reserve removal-law case. The source says Lisa Cook’s attempted firing was before the Supreme Court and treats the result as potentially decisive for whether presidents can effectively remove Fed governors at will.
Indicators of 2025 and What to Watch in 2026 adds two source-dated Supreme Court watchpoints for 2026. The episode says the Court was expected to hear arguments in Lisa Cook’s removal case and to rule on whether Donald Trump could impose the 2025 tariff shock without congressional approval, connecting the Court to both Federal Funds Rate As Policy Signal and Effective Tariff Rate Shock.
Connections
- Glass-Container Patent Pool, Patent Pool Cartel Risk, Sherman Antitrust Act, and FRAND Licensing - patent-pool antitrust branch added by Planet Money.
- Curt Flood, Bowie Kuhn, Arthur Goldberg, Major League Baseball, Flood v. Kuhn, Baseball Reserve Clause, Baseball Antitrust Exemption, and Public Opinion Litigation Strategy - baseball labor and antitrust branch added by Planet Money.
- Religious Controlled-Substance Exemption, Psychedelic Churches, Native American Church, Controlled Substances Act, and DEA Exemption Process - psychedelic church exemption branch added by Planet Money.
- Online Age Verification, Age Verification Patchwork, Texas, and Drew Harwell - age-verification legal-signal branch added by Marketplace Tech.
- IEPA Tariff Authority Limit, Tariff Refund Uncertainty, Section 122 Tariff Authority, and Kathleen Claussen - tariff-ruling aftermath branch added by Planet Money.
- United States - country and constitutional system in the source.
- American Democratic Resilience - optimistic reading of institutional guardrails.
- Executive Power Precedent - risk that court-sanctioned presidential power persists.
- Donald Trump, Robert Guest, and Daniel Knowles - political figure and commentators in the episode’s guardrail debate.
- Presidential Impeachment, Separation Of Powers, and United States Constitution - impeachment-procedure branch added by 蜜獾吃书.
- Federal Reserve, Lisa Cook, For-Cause Removal Standard, Central Bank Independence, and Executive Power Precedent - Fed-removal branch added by Planet Money.
- Costco, Effective Tariff Rate Shock, and Blanket Tariff Limit - tariff-authority branch added by the indicator source.
- U.S. Federalism Veto Points, U.S. Constitutional Reform Constraint, and U.S. Constitutional Crisis Risk - state-experimentation and reform-limit branch added by sp.05.