Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed

Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed. Trump had used the act to charge huge levies on countries, including 50% on India, which was later reduced, and 34% on China.

By Friday night, the president posted on Truth Social that he signed an executive order enabling him to bypass Congress and impose a 10% tax on imports from around the world. “It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” Trump wrote.

Less than 24 hours later, Trump said he was bumping up the tariffs to 15% “based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday.”

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    30 minutes ago

    Who is going to actually enforce these?

    What if people just refuse to collect anything, whether it’s his 10 or 15 percent?

    And tell anyone asking questions to take it up with the Supremes.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
    58·
    4 hours ago

    He is, for some stupid fucking reason, allowed to impose tarrifs for 150 days.

    Then it goes to congress to vote on whether to keep them, and they likely won’t.

    What a fucking asshole

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      29 minutes ago

      Where does the 150 days come from? FFS, we had nearly a full year before SCOTUS struck down the shit he started last year.

      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        21 minutes ago

        The 150 day limit is part of the law he is citing to justify this set of tariffs.

        The Trade Act of 1974.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      27·
      4 hours ago

      and they likely won’t.

      You mean the same Republican-dominated congress that has basically given him handjobs every time he breaks a fucking law and does something that is actually under the direction of congress? The same Republican-dominated congress that has essentially abdicated any responsibility to govern at all? I’m skeptical, but I hope you’re right.

      What a fucking asshole

      For real, this is another mask-off moment. He had played up the tariffs as a game to push other countries around, but clearly and literally the only reason he is doing this is because he’s pissed off at the Supreme Court. It has fuck-all to do with other countries because it’s the same rate, worldwide, with no room for negotiations. He’s supposed to be this great negotiator of trade deals with other countries, yet he’s blowing up every single potential trade deal with a flat 15% worldwide because he’s pissed off at people in his own government.

      If people can’t tell that he doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything except pushing people around, doesn’t matter who or about what, they’re fucking idiots. He’s just a cruel fucking asshole, like you said.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    2 hours ago

    I don’t think “fuck directly with people’s shit because you were handed an L” is a winning political strategy. Will it cost him? Hell no! We’ve never had a cult leader as president before.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    4 hours ago

    This is Trump’s “power move”.

    We know it’s illegal. He knows it’s illegal. He wants everyone to know that he knows it’s illegal, and he’ll do it anyway. What are you gonna do? Yell at him?

    He will continue to escalate, he takes great delight in “sticking it” to anyone who disagrees with him. There is no line that he won’t cross.

    He takes even more delight in “sticking it” to people who AGREE with him. As a rapist, he rapes anybody he can any way he can.

    • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 hours ago

      I think it’s kind of Legal? Smoot -Hawley from 1934-ish was never taken off the books. I cant remember if that’s the one he’s using for this, but it’s like that. There’s a never-used vestigial law that lets him do up to 15% for 150 days.

      As much if a known-destroyer of America he is, this is Congress failing to do it’s bare minimum job of holding the purse strings. They could stop him tomorrow and we would be better off if everyone realized thst

      Edit: this one isn’t smoot-hawley, sorry. Trade act of 1974. 15%, 150 days and a lot of exceptions. Congress should still do it job

    • just_another_person@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 hours ago

      This time is technically legal because of Hawley, but it should go back to when he started this dumb shit in the first place. We’ll see if we can get a Federal Judge to smack this down in the next week.

      All these companies collecting this money just need to fucking stop, and say “Fine then sue me” to the WH, but then of course we know they’ll be flooded with ICE. Trump has a private army now that needs to be dealt with in order to stop all this shit.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        27 minutes ago

        Honestly, I wish they’d all ban together and say we aren’t collecting any of this. The problem is that they individually bend the knee, comply in advance, etc.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
    14·
    4 hours ago

    Mutherfucker was counting on tariffs to offset government revenue after he cut taxes on himself and all his wealthy friends. Which is exactly what made them illegal. What does he think this next round is going to accomplish?

  • thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Now watch him reduce the tariffs again in a little while and all of his rich entourage getting richer because they can buy stocks right before.