Trump Lawyer Gets Cut Off by Sotomayor on Coney Barrett's Behalf: 'Could You Just Answer The Justice?'

Trump Solicitor General John Sauer got cut off as his answer to Justice Amy Coney Barrett wandered, with Justice Sonya Sotomayor stepping in to tell him to just answer the question in a tense moment at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case challenging Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs based on the invocation of emergency powers.

The arguments were carried live by CNN’s The Situation Room, during which Justice Barrett interrupted Sauer to ask a question that apparently sent him off on a tangent that Sotomayor found unresponsive:

JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT: General Sauer, can I just ask you a question? Can you point to any other place in the code or any other time in history where that phrase “together, regulate importation,” has been used to confer tariff imposing authority?