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.
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
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
Good, but prices continue to rise every time the orange dumbfuck yaps about tariffs.
At his White House news conference, Trump announced alternative options, including an immediate 10% global tariff.
Lol, the US is a clown show.
“They have made their ruling, now let us see them enforce it.”
Now several companies will sue my government for damages.
yaaaaay
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.
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.
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.
Did Howard Lutnick just make millions?
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.
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!
And people are delusional if they think these prices will go back down.
Really excited for the Transparent Wealth Transfer Act of 2026.
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.
It’s always a win win for the wealthy
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.
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.
He absolutely does not have the numbers to get this through congress. Across the aisle repubs and dems are mostly pro-business, pro-trade, and these tariffs don’t make an ounce of sense to any of them. Some GOP goons would vote for it just to make Trump happy, but way too many would rather protect their wealthy donors than protect the President. There’s not a lot of political future in making the Waltons unhappy.
Across the aisle repubs and dems are mostly pro-business, pro-trade
Well, plenty of the MAGA republicans are pro-tectionist more than they are pro-trade. If he’d tried to pass new tariffs on day 1 of his administration there’s a chance that they might have had enough votes to do it. But, that was the slow way that required negotiating and compromise.
Now that people have seen just how awful the tariffs are, I think a lot of the MAGA republicans wouldn’t pass the legislation. They could have claimed ignorance before the tariffs passed, but now it’s hard for them to argue with a straight face that they’ll be good for America.
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
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.
That’s all of them, isn’t it? For all other tariffs he would have had to use the legislative branch, which he didn’t.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
I can’t wait for prices to go back down.
So is this an impeachable offense? Im pretty sure if i broke federal law, i would be hunted down and thrown in jail.
