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NYC voters run to the polls on first day of early voting — with impressive five time increase to last mayoral race
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NYC voters run to the polls on first day of early voting — with impressive five time increase to last mayoral race

Nearly 80,000 Big Apple voters turned out to cast their ballots as early voting kicked off Saturday – a figure nearly five times higher than the early voter turnout seen in 2021, according to unofficial data. The New York City Board of Elections reported a total of 79,409 early voter check-ins as the polls closed Saturday – a sharp jump from the 15,418 who showed up when early voting began four years ago. The increase comes as a hotly contested race to replace Mayor Eric Adams pits former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an Independent against Democratic Party nominee and socialist Zohran Mamdani and beret-wearing Republican Curtis Sliwa. Officials said 24,046 ballots were cast in Manhattan, with 7,793 in the Bronx, 22,105 in Brooklyn, 19,045 in Queens, and 6,420 in State Island. That was much more than the 2021 first day numbers, which saw 4,563 voters in Manhattan, 2,079 voters in The Bronx, 3,751 voters in Brooklyn, 3,441 voters in Queens and 1,584 voters in Staten Island. The boost was touted by longtime top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa who said on X: “If these numbers hold, we could see 1.9M person turnout.” Follow The Post’s coverage of the NYC mayoral race Cuomo torches Mamdani as ‘child of wealth’ who’s ‘never had a real job’ in appearance on Logan Paul podcast Curtis Sliwa quits radio gig in on-air shouting match after calls to drop NYC mayor bid Eric Adams will endorse Andrew Cuomo for NYC mayor Adams could block Mamdani’s signature ‘rent freeze’ plan — possibly with help from reality TV star: sources Jeffries finally endorses Mamdani for NYC mayor — despite having ‘areas of principled disagreement’ Mamdani now leading in the polls by double digits to win the job overseeing the city’s $115 billion budget and nearly 300,000-member workforce. Adams, a centrist Democrat, suspended his sagging re-election campaign last month as fundraising lagged following a federal probe, even though he was cleared of corruption allegations.

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Former Judges Invoke Alexander Hamilton in Cautionary Message to Supreme Court Regarding Trump
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Former Judges Invoke Alexander Hamilton in Cautionary Message to Supreme Court Regarding Trump

More than 30 former federal judges have informed the U.S. Supreme Court that President Donald Trump does not possess “unlimited power to impose tariffs on all goods imported from all trading partners.” In a 21-page amicus brief, these ex-judges, appointed by presidents from both major political parties, express their concern. They emphasize their ongoing commitment to maintaining the independence of the federal judiciary. Their brief cautions that the Trump administration’s stance could undermine the judiciary’s role in the crucial tariffs case currently under consideration by the Supreme Court. The judges stress the importance of respecting the separation of powers, ensuring that any legislative power delegated to the President undergoes thorough judicial scrutiny. This legal battle encompasses a series of cases initiated by diverse groups challenging Trump’s tariff policies. In mid-April, V.O.S. Selections, an alcohol importer, and other businesses filed a lawsuit against the tariffs, citing issues such as pricing chaos, shipping disruptions, limited product selection, inventory challenges, cash flow problems, and reduced purchase orders. By late April, 12 states led by Democratic administrations had similarly contested Trump’s tariffs. These cases have since been consolidated. In late May, the consolidated plaintiffs won the argument – securing a formal kibosh on the tariffs by a unanimous three-judge panel on the Court of International Trade. But in real terms, that ruling was immediately stayed by a 10-judge panel on the appellate court. Then, in August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against the tariffs again – and also stayed its own ruling until Oct. 14 to give the government time to appeal to the Supreme Court. In early September, the Trump administration filed their petition for a writ of certiorari, warning an end to Trump’s claimed tariffs powers would place America on the “brink” of economic “catastrophe.” The major question before the court is whether or not the president has the power to unilaterally impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Each court to review the question has answered in the negative. The ex-judges, in their amicus brief, phrased the matter slightly differently. First, they say, the IEEPA question is more a matter of whether Congress has ceded such broad authority to the president. And, second, whether the legality of the president’s actions is beyond the scope of judicial review. As for the IEEPA issue, the amici say the federal government is arguing “to uphold the transfer of total authority to set tariffs to the President.” “[F]or a delegation to pass constitutional muster, Congress must ‘lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle to which the person or body to fix such rates is directed to conform,’” the amicus brief argues. “Here by contrast, the IEEPA provides no standards to guide the president in determining the countries on which tariffs should be imposed, the goods that should be subject to a tariff, or the rate of such tariffs.” Prior delegations of such powers allowed by the law have involved specific and prescriptive details – surpassing even guidelines as to their specificity – and “an intelligible principle” with which the president must “conform,” the judges say. But, they insist, nothing like that is happening here. “According to President Trump, he can do whatever he wants when it comes to tariffs, imposing them (as he has) even on countries that do not contribute to America’s drug-trafficking problem and have no negative balance of payments with the United States,” the brief goes on. “We respectfully submit that this is not the law. Under our Constitution, and its careful allocation and separation of powers, Congress cannot hand its tariff-setting authority over to the President lock, stock, and barrel, allowing him to aim it whenever, wherever, and however he pleases.” On the second issue – of judicial review over tariff-setting – the onetime judges portend an even more dire state of affairs, warning of unmitigated power metastasizing indefinitely into amalgam both familiar and abhorrent to U.S. history, politics, and law. From the amicus brief, at length: [T]his Court should reject the Solicitor General’s argument that courts lack the power to decide whether there were, in fact, “unusual and extraordinary” threats that justified the President’s use of the powers assertedly conferred by IEEPA. Giving the President the unreviewable authority to decide whether he may exercise emergency powers would be antithetical to the balance of powers that our founders established as the bedrock of the Constitution…it is the province of the judicial branch to determine whether the President has gone beyond what the law allows. “For this court to rule that the president alone can exercise unlimited legislative powers without judicial review of a determination that a national emergency exists would give the president tyrannical powers,” the brief continues. “Alexander Hamilton observed in The Federalist No. 47: ‘The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.’”