Justices grill administration over imposition of steep duties as Sotomayor says: ‘I just don’t understand this argument’
The US supreme court appeared skeptical of the legal basis of the Trump administration’s sweeping global tariff regime on Wednesday after justices questioned the president’s authority to impose the levies.
Justices heard oral arguments on Wednesday morning on the legality of Donald Trump’s tariffs , a crucial legal test of his controversial economic strategy – and power.
Even conservative justices sounded doubtful of the strength of the Trump administration’s position. “The vehicle is the imposition of taxes on Americans, and that has always been a core power of Congress,” said Chief Justice John Roberts.
1 things is for sure: The money isn’t coming back to the consumer. If they have to return any funds it’s our taxes that are going up to pay for it.
We get shafted from both ends.
And it should be as clear as constitutional crystal that it wasn’t legal to begin with.
I mean, the money that was gathered is a tax, so returning all of it would be a wash.
For the government’s books, sure (if anything, it was a 0% interest loan, which is probably better than a wash strictly speaking)
But for society in general - the money was gathered from consumers but will be getting returned to businesses, so not a wash at all