Trump to Supreme Court: "F" You!

[kentuck]

The Dictator was none too happy with the Supreme Court going off script and telling him that his tariffs did not meet constitutional muster. He immediately attacked them.

Then, he said he was going to impose a 10% tariff worldwide. What could they do about it? He could destroy a "country" if he wanted. He didn't specifically say "America".

He let them know that they had no enforcement mechanism and that the DOJ and all the enforcement agencies worked for him. He would do whatever he wanted.

He is the Dictator.

[dalton99a]

1. The same Supreme Court that made Trump 2.0 possible

[kentuck]

3. They think they can control the monster they helped to create.

What a naive, out-of-touch, incompetent bunch of so-called "Justices".

[lostincalifornia]

2. I believe live that 10% tariff is only allowed for a short period.

It is under a federal law section 122 limited to 150 days unless Congress extends them.

[dalton99a]

5. He will issue a new order on the 151th day and restart the clock.

"How much of a constraint this is, however, remains to be seen," notes Clark Packard, a research fellow at the Cato Institute. "If Congress declines to act, the administration could, at least in theory, allow the tariffs to lapse, declare a new balance-of-payments emergency, and restart the clock. The maneuver would raise serious separation-of-powers concerns, but nothing in the statute clearly forbids it."

[Demixs]

7. Still, he can't do 40 or 50%. He's limited to 15%.

That’s a big loss for him

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. I wish folks would read beyond the headlines

Trump will obey yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling, which only applied to tariffs collected under his fake “emergency” invoking IEEPA.

All sector (steel, aluminum, lumber, auto parts) tariffs remain intact and the new tariffs are imposed under different laws.

He’s not defying the court, he’s playing Whack-A-Mole.

He even said as much yesterday, acknowledging he could play this game for the remainder of his term as it took a year for SCOTUS to overturn these tariffs.

[kentuck]

6. I have heard reports that he collected just over $200 Billion on his emergency tariffs...

..and that the farmers and voters in the Midwest suffered a lot looking for markets for their products.

Some might suggest that if he is playing "Whack-a-Mole " with the Supreme Court, he is defying them.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. Whack-a-Mole is far different than "You and what army?"

How can he be defying a ruling on IEEPA when he is no longer collecting tariffs under IEEPA?

Kavanaugh’s dissent, which Trump praised profusely, even gave him a road map for the next steps.

[kentuck]

9. With Kavanaugh's directions, what has really changed?

Can he continue to defy the Courts? Or would he just be following the laws?

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. Kavanaugh's dissent identifies other routes to impose tariffs not affected by yesterday's ruling

Whether they are actually legal would be up to the courts to decide, and, as we have seen, could take a year or more to get a final ruling.

When it comes to tariffs, it is false to say he would “continue to defy the courts”, since he isn’t.

[Igel]

12. Hardly the first president to play that game.

Either find a lot of little bits of statute with just the right interpretations, all judiciable, to get around blocking the big piece that does a lot of things; or just say he'd do something even if it will be knocked down again in a while.

When it's SCOTUS, say that they're betraying whatever it is of value that requires a need to overrule the text or compel and novel, never-before-seen, interpretation.

Trump's master of that, to be sure.

[andym]

10. If Trump ignores their judgement then he shows them why the unitary executive theory is a bad idea

and one the founders would not have favored. It's doubtful the founders would have interpreted the vesting clause as extremely the current SC does to mean ALL executive power a currently understood to the exclusion of modification by Congress and the SC.
"The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America."