inasmuch as

As the plaintiffs pointed out, the DOJ’s submission was in fact the worst possible foot forward, inasmuch as we’ve been hearing since Liberation Day that these tariffs are a tax grab.

You could almost feel their plea, inasmuch as they didn’t engage with the law nearly as much as the other briefs, they just wanted to make that simple point, which Katyal opened with, and which several of the justices then echoed their attacks—there’s no mystery.

“The corollary benefit to the United States is control, inasmuch as the U.S. might not want the Ukrainians putting this through the window of the Kremlin.”

I’m not sure that will happen, inasmuch as Dobbs didn’t remove abortion from the political realm as Roe attempted to do, but shoved the subject back into it.

How I would put it is: In terms of the idea that they can just do anything they want and they can do even more—it’s not entirely clear that is actually factually true, inasmuch as that they’re kind of already doing everything they want.