So they are going to pay it back right?……….Right?
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So let me get this straight, the companies that raised their prices based on Trump's tariffs get to apply for a refund with no requirement to lower prices and pass that refund on to the consumers who actually had to pony up the money at the 'cash register' every day. Once again, corporations get an undeserved bailout while the American consumer gets shafted. Typical.
Too little too late supreme court. There's no one left to enforce the decision.
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.
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.
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.
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?
This seems like a job for drumroll+horns CHUCK SHUMER & HAKEEM JEFFRIES
Dynamic duo of incompetence extraordinaire!
At his White House news conference, Trump announced alternative options, including an immediate 10% global tariff.
Lol, the US is a clown show.
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(R)OTUS another year to rule on those.
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.
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.
I'm shocked! SHOCKED I tell you!
I am. Sincerely, I'm shocked. This is quite the surprise.
It's not the 6-3 ruling I expected at all. Was fully thinking would be 6-3 that it was okay for him to do it not saying he can't
I mean it's such an incredibly unambiguous 9-0 on a legal basis and he still got three nonetheless.
Understand that this is SCOTUS believing they're helping Trump by removing the unpopular tariffs while handing out huge amounts of cash in an election year
“They have made their ruling, now let us see them enforce it.”
Now several companies will sue my government for damages.
yaaaaay
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?
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 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.
It doesn't matter. Remember all those times when Trump & Co set a tariff percentage, then lowered it a few weeks later? I wonder why? Maybe somebody made a "donation" to his bitcoin account. He got what he wanted.
So the Supreme Court finally found out what we all already knew?
But a few of them clearly still haven't gotten the memo?
I mean I'm trying to be happy about this news, but it's kind of just more proof how pathetic and corrupt our SC is.
As if that'll stop the orange nonce.
While him and his enablers suffer no consequences then he is defacto above the law
He came back with another one.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/20/us/trump-tariffs-supreme-court
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