Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶57

This argument cannot bear the weight the Government places on it. While this Court sometimes assumes that Congress incorporates judicial definitions into legislation, we do so “only when [the] term's meaning was `well-settled' ” before the adoption. Kemp v. United States, 596 U. S. 528, 539 (2022) (quoting Neder v. United States, 527 U. S. 1, 22 (1999)); see also United States v. Kwai Fun Wong, 575 U. S. 402, 412–415 (2015). A single, expressly limited opinion from a specialized intermediate appellate court does not clear that hurdle.See BP p.l.c. v. Mayor and City Council of Balti more, 593 U. S. 230, 244 (2021). The tariff authority asserted by President Nixon, moreover, was “far removed” from TWEA's “original purposes” of sanctioning foreign belligerents. Cohen, Fundamentals of U. S. Foreign Trade Policy, at 178–179. We are therefore skeptical that Congress enacted IEEPA with an eye…

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