The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that has been central to the president’s foreign policy and economic agenda.
Another illegal {insert thing here}?
Oh, wow, is it time to arrest and charge?
Or, will you do nothing just like the 7456 times the fat cunt broke your laws in the last year and you did fuck all?An illegal executive order isn’t a crime, it just doesn’t count.
Important to note that the ruling just says Trump exceeded his authority in setting the tariffs, not that the tariffs themselves were illegal/unconstitutional. That means that Congress can authorize Trump to continue doing this. The question is whether Mike Johnson and John Thune have the numbers to pass that law. They already both quashed efforts to curb Trump’s authority before.
Any other ruling wouldn’t have made sense. The issue was not about if tariffs are legal, but rather if the President has the authority to unilaterally set them.
I’m not too worried about additional tariffs passing through congress, though. That would have been the safer approach to try from the beginning if Trump’s people thought they could make it work. They opted for this workaround loophole nonsense specifically to go around congress because they had already ruled out the possibility of congressional approval.
I just don’t think Trump could ever manage to get enough support from congress. Certainly not with how unpopular the tariffs currently are, and certainly not right before the midterms.
But wouldn’t it be delightful if he actually tried, because that’s the only thing left to do and he can’t possibly give up on the tariffs?
That’s his one signature economic policy. Without tariffs, he’s got nothing. Even though they are unpopular, he still claims they just need more time, you’ll see how marvelous life is going to be when he hands the tariff checks to every household in America.
That’s fine, sort of. Maybe we’re all just traumatized by violating constitution, checks and balances, the rule of law, but I’d welcome the improvement if they were evil legally
So they are going to pay it back right?……….Right?
There are already lawsuits filed for refunds of tariff payments. Of course the money will go to the companies that made the payments. All of us who actually paid them by paying more for basically every consumer good are out of luck.
Companies that made the payments already sold their rights to this refunds to investment funds for cents on the dollar. Now the funds will make shitload of money. And guess who invested in all of it? Yes, people connected to Trump!
https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/
They straight out robbed everyone.
Lmfao of course they had something like this set up
I posted this link before. Sometimes I feel like not everyone here is reading my comments.
I must have missed it - I try to take breaks from doomscrolling occasionally 😛
Wealth transfer from labor to the ownership class.
Sounds like the system is working as intended.
Hah! It gets better than that.
We are going to have to pay again in taxes to make up for the new shortfall.
Yeah, it is kind of like seeing you car that was stolen on the news being returned to the person who resold it from the person who stole your car.
Justice!
It this were a proper, well regulated capitalist marketplace with actual competition, the company that sold you the widget might offer you a rebate on your next order so that they could keep your business. But, when your only real option is Amazon, they know you’re not going anywhere, so they’ll keep the tariff repayment and just wait for your next order.
And people are delusional if they think these prices will go back down.
Really excited for the Transparent Wealth Transfer Act of 2026.
It’s always a win win for the wealthy
There’s always the chance Costco gives its customers something. They have records of everything purchased by members. Every other company, I wouldn’t hold my breath. These tariffs have cost companies a lot in paperwork as well.
Maybe commercial clients who have bought something really substantial will get something refunded.
That’s all if Trump’s government complies, which he’s previously said it wouldn’t. He’ll make another excuse or appeal it until he’s gone, making it someone else’s problem.
Yeah of course, now the big importing companies get billions of dollars… oh you meant to the consumer, tough luck.
A trump never pays his debts
The cheque is in the mail.
I mean, as much of a fucking mess this is going to cause, and as much as they should have said this a year ago, this is still very good news as far as I am concerned. Bare minimum, all the tarriffs currently in place by Trump are canceled going forward and it’s going to be a while before anything analogous can be put back into place.
It’s not all the tariffs, just the ones he justified using the 1977 Emergency Act. So of course, now he’ll use another justification, and it’ll take SC®OTUS another year to rule on those.
If this was the fastest they could rule an executive action unconstitutional, it’s proof they need to adjust the process so they can do it faster.
Not that I think this Supreme Court is acting in good faith.
Incorrect.
Only a subset of tariffs were ruled illegal. Mostly because of the method they were declared with.
Others are, as of now, perfectly legal and will remain in place. And expect many of these to just be declared in a different manner to maintain them.
Any idea which specific tariffs supposed to go away and which will stay?
It’s a good thing first and foremost because tariffs have been Trump’s #1 tool to bully other nations into bending to his will.
Too little too late supreme court. There’s no one left to enforce the decision.
This was planned. Blitzkrieg policies are working as intended.
It’s especially unsurprising that OAN (my bellwether for batshit crazy conservative stuff) aren’t even reporting on this.
These people live in an entirely different universe of ignorance.
So is this an impeachable offense? Im pretty sure if i broke federal law, i would be hunted down and thrown in jail.
Whoa.
Well, I bet my pants that Justice Clarence Thomas is a dissenting opinion. Does it say in the article?
There’s only one way to find out: ask people what’s in the article.
Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch joined with Roberts and the three liberal justices in the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.
I just wanted to guess before I read it.
Can something so certain legitimately be called a guess anymore?
“Supreme Court justices should be [terrible thing, deadly, obviously bad outcome for them]”
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.
Like, who knows, in a motor coach kissing a concrete pillar on the way back from Martha’s Vineyard when OnStar goes out during a Cloudflare outage?
It’s always the ones you most suspect. You could probably be closely aligned with the constitution without knowing a single thing about the law by just always taking the opposite position from whatever Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh take.
I must admit I’ve been surprised by how independent of Trump Amy Coney Barrett has wound up being. She’s ruled against him a few times now.
When she looks relatively sane and moderate it just demonstrates how crazy and extreme the fascists in charge are.
Oh, certainly. I would never say she was a good pick for the Supreme Court. She’s a monster who has turned on her creator, as so many of them ultimately do.
I can’t remember what it was about, but I think Kavanaugh was actually on the correct side of a non-unanimous ruling maybe once.
Literally zero times for the other two, of course.
A few of them made an effort to keep up appearances during early rulings, but then they realized that democracy was falling so they went whole-hog with empowering fascism, and now we’re approaching what looks like a brutal mid-term sweep so the judges are backing off again from overt capitulation… we sure wouldn’t want the new house and senate to introduce bills to reform Supreme Court, right?
I still think Barrett, a person who had almost no courtroom experience before being appointed, was a shitty appointment. But she’s turned out slightly less shitty than I anticipated.
Recusing herself that one time was a low bar to clear, but she managed to huff and puff her way over.
Thomas, Alito, and Kavanagh were the dissenters.
Yep.
Ooh boy, refunds! Yay!
We should make sure to refund all the corporations and businesses - by court order! If we do that, surely it will trickle down this time.
I wonder how many companies were put out of business by these tariffs?
My brother in law supplied bubble tea material for bubble tea shops in both the Portland and Vegas area. He shut down 2 months ago because of the tariffs. His increased price made shops in those areas shut down and ultimately he decided enough was enough.
So are they going to pack the far-left, woke, DEI court now?
I can’t wait for prices to go back down.
Lol.
Iranians right now
Okay, trump is going to be pissed about this, so why did they do it? Do they think he’s going to die or are there different handlers in play here that are losing money?
I’m wondering if contributing factor could be that he is giving himself 10 billion of taxpayer’s money? He is straight stealing from us, literally to his own bank account in Qatar.
He would have to ask Congress if it weren’t for the tariffs.
They see the tide turning. And Trump will be dead by summer. Time to start positioning JD as the good guy … then they’ll start their bullshit up again…
Beast Rabban is dead, long love kind, glorious Feyd-Rautha!
I suspect you’re right on the money, since their handlers are probably trump’s handlers too.
There’s a term that I can’t recall about positioning a bad person as a less bad alternative in order to gain support.
So basically the theory is when Trump goes, they’ll say, look he was the bad one, it’ll all be better now with this other guy.
oh neat. so that means this ruling will be enforced right? …right?
of course it won’t. it’s another dog and pony show from the US.
