HERE he comes to save the DAY! Brett's just like Mighty Mouse, if Mighty Mouse were an alcoholic rapist in a black robe.
Why Justice Kavanaugh’s dissent in tariffs ruling made Trump ‘so proud of him’
Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s dissent reads like a roadmap for how a president can achieve much of what Trump wants.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-donald-trump-tariffs-dissent-supreme-court
Feb. 22, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
By
Jessica Levinson
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision Friday invalidating President Donald Trump’s sweeping and so-called “reciprocal tariffs” is, on one level, a classic separation-of-powers ruling. The Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to impose taxes and regulate commerce. Congress can certainly give some of this power away, but it needs to be clear when it does. The court held that when Congress enacted the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the statute that Trump relied on to impose these tariffs, lawmakers did not, in fact, empower any president to impose tariffs.
But as much as the ruling angered Trump — he called the justices who ruled against him “a disgrace to our nation,” “fools” and “lap dogs” — the decision is perhaps merely Act II in the long play called “Trump’s tariff project.” After all, the ink on the Supreme Court’s ruling was barely dry when Trump announced that he plans to impose a 10% global tariff on all of the United States’ trading partners under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. Saturday, he announced that global tariff would be an even higher 15%.
The court’s conclusion is legally and economically significant, but perhaps structurally narrow. The court did not say Trump or any other president can never impose tariffs. It said a president cannot impose tariffs via the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. And despite his finding that Trump could use the IEEP, Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s dissent reads like a roadmap for how a president can achieve much of what Trump wants.
Referring to Kavanaugh during a news conference Friday, Trump said, “I’m so proud of him.”
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