Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed. Trump had used the act to charge huge levies on countries, including 50% on India, which was later reduced, and 34% on China.
By Friday night, the president posted on Truth Social that he signed an executive order enabling him to bypass Congress and impose a 10% tax on imports from around the world. “It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” Trump wrote.
Less than 24 hours later, Trump said he was bumping up the tariffs to 15% “based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday.”
This is Trump’s “power move”.
We know it’s illegal. He knows it’s illegal. He wants everyone to know that he knows it’s illegal, and he’ll do it anyway. What are you gonna do? Yell at him?
He will continue to escalate, he takes great delight in “sticking it” to anyone who disagrees with him. There is no line that he won’t cross.
He takes even more delight in “sticking it” to people who AGREE with him. As a rapist, he rapes anybody he can any way he can.
I think it’s kind of Legal? Smoot -Hawley from 1934-ish was never taken off the books. I cant remember if that’s the one he’s using for this, but it’s like that. There’s a never-used vestigial law that lets him do up to 15% for 150 days.
As much if a known-destroyer of America he is, this is Congress failing to do it’s bare minimum job of holding the purse strings. They could stop him tomorrow and we would be better off if everyone realized thst
Here’s the thing. The constitution says CONGRESS levies taxes, not the president. Any law CONGRESS passes must be IN PURSUANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. Making a law that abrogates any part the constitution is not IN PURSUANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. The only way to do that is TO AMEND the constitution.
So, no. It’s not kind of legal.
and any judge worth the air it would take make such a statement should FUCKING KNOW THAT!
Congress has ceded more and more authority to the executive and Trump is taking advantage of that. This law (1974) grants the president the ability to levy tariffs up to 15% for 150 days. That Congress sucks is against the spirit of the constitution but not the letter of it
But that’s the point. Congress CANNOT cede authority without amending the constitution. Any ‘law’ they make doing so is invalid because it violates the constitution. A LAW CANNOT OVERRIDE THE CONSTITUTION.
This time is technically legal because of Hawley, but it should go back to when he started this dumb shit in the first place. We’ll see if we can get a Federal Judge to smack this down in the next week.
All these companies collecting this money just need to fucking stop, and say “Fine then sue me” to the WH, but then of course we know they’ll be flooded with ICE. Trump has a private army now that needs to be dealt with in order to stop all this shit.
Honestly, I wish they’d all ban together and say we aren’t collecting any of this. The problem is that they individually bend the knee, comply in advance, etc.