Originally published at: 5 Points On the Court Cases That Could Undo Trump’s Tariffs - TPM – Talking Points Memo
After months of rigamarole beginning with the April 2 threat of widespread “Liberation Day” tariffs, President Donald Trump’s administration finally levied import taxes against more than 70 countries on Thursday. Now it’s up to the courts to decide whether those tariffs will stay in place. Trump launched his assault on global trade using a 1977…
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It’s a given that any ruling against Trump will be appealed to the Supreme Court, where as noted TRUMP has 3 appointees. The 50-50 chance that the SC will rule against Trump is pretty optimistic in my opinion.
For something a little different:
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Trump “managed to wrest control of foreign trade policy powers from Congress…”
No, the GOP, the party iin power, gave it to him willingly.
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Now, that’s pretty!
And the courts have become a pretty thin reed lately. I hope there are a lot of lefties strategizing methods of purging the corruption at the top, as the opportunities become available.
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Love the patterns - now I know where the Old Ones got some of their ideas for decorating their pottery!
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“Courts will decide whether Trump has managed to wrest control of foreign trade policy powers from Congress and reposition that authority at the feet of the executive branch.”
Please. At this point this kind of sentence is pathetically naive and could have been written by an earnest high school freshman. It’s completely tone deaf to where we are and how corrupt the judiciary is
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I agree with Bernstein. 6 - 3 in favor of the President’s tariff power.
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Highly informed and informative explanation of international trade and tariffs, history and economics. Making this issue intelligible to the average person is an immense challenge.
Transcript:
TACO Trump shenanigans have muted the impact of tariffs when eventually imposed, so it sounds like so much ‘crying wolf’.
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If the court strikes down Trump’s tariffs, there are other, less flexible and more time consuming methods Trump could use to enact his isolationist economic agenda.
I keep hearing that he has other ways to enact these tariffs if the court shoots this method down, but I haven’t heard what they are. I suppose one of them would be to just unilaterally declare it as a divine right of the King, and then tell the courts to shove it. He likes his tariffs too much to give them up.
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Reposting an earlier comment:
By far the most chilling outcome would be that all three levels of court - the US Court of International Trade, the DC circuit court of appeals and the Supreme Court - rule the tariffs are illegal, and there is no mechanism to enforce the ruling.
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We’ve had a trade deficit since about 1980, and now it’s an emergency?
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And that’s kind of the point. The administration doesn’t care what the courts say. If the First Felon says it will be done, then it will be done. But we can pretty much anticipate that SCOTUS will say ok.
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Reposting an earlier comment, slightly edited:
It is puzzling, perhaps in a good way, that this tariff court process is obscure and under the radar on one hand, but on the other hand quite powerful as judicial authorities go. It resides in the important, respected DC federal court that specializes in international trade litigation. The original decision, instead of being from a single judge, was rendered by a three judge panel. It is by its nature a nationwide decision… it doesn’t get hashed out repeatedly between circuits. The appeal was heard in the first instance en banc by the full 11 judge bench instead of the usual three judge panel with the possibility of appeal to the full bench. The original decision, and the eventual appeals court decision, which should come shortly, would seem to carry extraordinary heft going into the Supreme Court. Maybe that matters.
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Just what are many Lesothoans going to do when their economy tanks thanks to Trump’s tariffs? Migrate, quite likely to the US.
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“Trump called the country a nation “nobody has heard of,” and Lesotho’s Deputy Prime Minister Nthomeng Majara declared a state of economic emergency, citing massive unemployment and job loss.”
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I would appreciate trump keeping his yap shut for once. How does he know if I supposedly have never heard of Lesotho? (hint: I have)
To assume one knows what another person knows while having zero knowledge of that person is insulting.
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My concern is that this case is brought before the midterms which will probably lead to a change of parties in the house. That house will fight like hell.
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Are you familiar with the presidential immunity decision?
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America’s trade deficits constituted a national emergency
Wouldn’t trade surpluses too? Oh, wait.
Greed is good. America is Christian. Got it.
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Competent economic and foreign policy would have included briefings by people who do know Lesotho well.
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Actually, trade surpluses would be an emergency as well, because (by the rules of accounting identities) that would mean foreign disinvestment from US assets and enterprises. Fewer purchases of treasury notes, selloffs of foreign-owned stocks in US companies, divestment of foreign-owned companies with facilities in the US.
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