Supreme Court strikes down Trump's sweeping global tariffs

The ruling opens the door to potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff refunds.

Not a good day for Trump with the SC ruling against the reasons for many of his tariffs

A good example of the SC Conservative majority not being controlled or aligned to everything he does

Supreme Court Shocks World by Correctly Declaring Trump's Global Tariffs Unconstitutional

Edit: Whoops I guess I wasnt on the last page when I added this.

Is there anyone who would enforce this anyways? If D win the next round, they will have to deal with it. Things will be fun and 4 years later, R will come back and continue with business as usual.

/Edit: lol, of course all of this is another scam https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/

Edited 22 hours ago22 hr by Lexx

I've been expecting the Supreme Court to strike down the tariffs ever since Howard Nutlick's former associates started buying up potential tariff recourse claims. I'd say it can't get any more obvious, but with this administration, any more obvious was stretched to the limit with Trump's meme coin.

I'm reading Trump has a plan B, and that the tariffs will continue under some other name.

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Was a banger of a press conference too.

Edited 19 hours ago19 hr by Malcador

13 hours ago, Gorgon said:

I'm reading Trump has a plan B, and that the tariffs will continue under some other name.

Yes, he can do tariffs in another form and see how they work

But for me thats not the significance of this ruling

There are 2 main takeaways from this

• the majority Conservative SC will not always support his policies. There has always been a concern around this because its a 6-3 Conservative majority.

• Trump's overall ability to implement sweeping policies effectively has been undermined

And I predict this will become worse after the Midterms where the GOP will lose control of either the House and or the Senate

But end of day its a victory for US Democracy, and global Democracy, because its an example of the functional structure of the checks and balances that all US presidents must be accountable to

Can you ever imagine the courts in Russia or China being able to reject and reverse something as significant as these tariffs that the state decided to implement and vociferously support

Edited 8 hours ago8 hr by BruceVC

Being better than Russia or China on a democracy scale is a very low bar.

1 hour ago, Gorgon said:

Being better than Russia or China on a democracy scale is a very low bar.

Sure but my point is there are people who question the importance of government accountability that only exists in Democracies where courts are independent

Its not just in Russia or China where courts would never reverse this type of decision by the president or leadership

In South Africa I sometimes hear support for more autocratic countries because there leaders are seen as "strong " but people dont realize what freedoms they lose under those same governments

20 hours ago, Malcador said:

The Wacko in Chief thinks he's Paul Atreidies: "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." Which, of course, is a logical absurdity. Presumably he believes he's being funny. Must be rich man's "humor", I suppose.