Justice Brett Kavanaugh drops panicky dissent over 'mess' court made for Trump

[turbinetree]

By Tom Boggioni
Published February 20, 2026 11:54 AM ET

In his dissent after a 6-3 majority clamped down on Donald Trump’s ability to bypass Congress and levy tariffs on a whim, Justice Brett Kavanaugh went beyond a legal and historical precedent argument and instead worried how the current administration will cope with the adverse ruling.

Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, wrote a dissent where he broke with conservative Justices John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch and complained that the court did not consider the implications of how the Trump administration will refund the ill-gotten tariff money.

He wrote, “So the Court’s decision is not likely to greatly restrict Presidential tariff authority going forward. But the Court’s decision is likely to generate other serious practical consequences in the near term.”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariff-loss-brett/

Hey Shit for brains Kavanagh, now that you made the stupid comment on how the other predator can pay back all the BS tax........... I have an idea............you know that money he got for tearing down the East Wing, you know how his Snow Queen Noem, wants to buy a jet ...............well don't give him tax payer dollars to do that shit.............and if he needs to go to Mar a Lago and speak to Orban have him take Amtrac.............just a thought and or do you have something better. ..................

[leftstreet]

1. If minimum wage goes up, Big Macs will be $50!

This is an actual Supreme Court Judge making a bizarre argument that's completely outside the scope of his mission

unbelievable

[B.See]

12. what happens when you put

beer guzzling sexual predators in ROBES.

[D_Master81]

19. He is a GOP operative

He was out there go 1 reason. To do the bidding of the GOP, nothing more.

[eShirl]

2. Trump made the mess by crapping all over the Constitution

[Bluetus]

21. Trump loves chaos. He's got chaos. CLAWBACK !!!!

If I am corporate counsel for Amazon, WalMart. Target, eBay or and other retail channels, I'm filing suit on Monday to claw back every penny I paid in illegal tariffs. It is no different from a tax return. The government has to refund overcharges.

And while we're talking about clawbacks, let's claw back the money from the Qatari jet, from the stolen Venezuelan oik, from all the other shakedowns Trump has been running.

The operative word for the 2026 political season should be

CLAWBACKS !!!

And Dems would be wise to plant their flag firmly on the side of businesses, large and small who got scammed by Trump's illegal tariff racket.

[Disaffected]

3. How does that old axiom go?

If the law is on your side, pound the law. If the law is not on your side, pound the table.

Or something to that effect.......

[ITAL]

22. I believe:

If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.

[johnnyfins]

4. Kavanaugh is such an entitled little worm.

Did Epstein pay off his debt? Some people are asking.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

5. Oh no, the administration has to cope with your ruling? That! Is! Your! Job!

[ProfessorGAC]

13. And, Their Job

The court did its job, now the administration has to do their job.
Might refunding that money be hard? Probably. Tough.

[Mysterian]

6. I hope the drunken traitor gets cirrhosis and croaks

when a Dem president replaces the make-up splattered con-man.

[Initech]

7. I feel like this is setting up for at least one of the shitty 6 to resign.

And to be replaced with a MAGA ass kissing loyalist like Cannon. Please say I'm wrong about this.

[tanyev]

8. Brett's gone full Scarlett O'Hara.

[lame54]

9. Not likely to restrict going forward?...

Is he signaling to Trump to ignore the ruling?

[dsc]

10. that is what the attorneys asking for the injunction of those tariffs said

and what every lower court said. this mess is the SCOTUS fault and Trump's.

[Lochloosa]

11. Did he consider the implications to women when he overturned Roe?

[Buckeyeblue]

20. Exactly. Or the chaos around deportations.

[Wiz Imp]

14. So Kavanaugh's position is it's OK it was unconstitutional because it will be difficult to

figure out how to refund the money? That's worse than Thomas & Scalia's opinions who just think anything that Trump does should be considered legal.

[ck4829]

15. It's crazy that some people think these clowns are actually great legal minds or geniuses in general

[turbinetree]

16. He shouldn't even be on the bench ..............

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

17. Kavanaugh stops.. that phrase should follow him forever

[Vinca]

18. Trump made the mess and we shouldn't have to put up with it.