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.

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[–] 217 points 8 months ago (28 children)

So they are going to pay it back right?……….Right?

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  • [–] 239 points 8 months ago (20 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 153 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Wealth transfer from labor to the ownership class.

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  • [–] 69 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

    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.

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    [–] 106 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

    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.

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    [–] 99 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Too little too late supreme court. There's no one left to enforce the decision.

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    [–] 78 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 56 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    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?

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    [–] 53 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    At his White House news conference, Trump announced alternative options, including an immediate 10% global tariff.

    Lol, the US is a clown show.

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  • [–] 44 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    I'm shocked! SHOCKED I tell you!

    I am. Sincerely, I'm shocked. This is quite the surprise.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    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

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    [–] 30 points 8 months ago

    “They have made their ruling, now let us see them enforce it.”

    Now several companies will sue my government for damages.

    yaaaaay

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    [–] 28 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    Whoa.

    Well, I bet my pants that Justice Clarence Thomas is a dissenting opinion. Does it say in the article?

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  • [–] 61 points 8 months ago* (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] 24 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    An actual useful court should've made this ruling on day 1

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago*

    As if that'll stop the orange nonce.

    While him and his enablers suffer no consequences then he is defacto above the law

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  • [+] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
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