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Saturday, February 21, 2026

CONGRESS AND TARIFFS

 



Justice Gorsuch explains:





4 comments:

Shaw Kenawe said...

'The six supreme court justices who ruled against my tariffs were influenced by foreign interests.'

Donald Trump, while accepting a nearly half billion dollar jet given to him by Qatar.

Les Carpenter said...

Ignorance and selfish self interests are the only guiding forces of the American Fuhrer.

Dave Miller said...

Read the Gorsuch opinion... in it he simply calls out the dissenting judges in this case. Why? Because they, like the rest of MAGA land, have no consistency of belief and change their 'legal views" depending on who is in office.

How else to explain, he asked, why Justices Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh, who all cited the "major doctrine precedent" to shut down Biden actions, essentially denied it even existed in a similar case of POTUS overreach involving Trump.

Justice Kavanaugh argued in his dissent one of the reasons to not end what Gorsuch called the "illegal" and "unConstitutional" Trump tariffs that “The United States may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the IEEPA tariffs, even though some importers may have already passed on costs to consumers or others.”

What the heck kind of SCOTUS argument is that? It's not a legal argument from the Constitution at all. It's as if a Justice was arguing abolishing slavery would lead to economic crises, so we should not do it.

Kavanaugh should be impeached for such a specious argument and together with Thomas and Alito, ashamed to call themselves Justices of the SCOTUS.

It should have been a 9-0 decision, sending tariffs back to Congress, where they belong, except in a real emergency.

Les Carpenter said...

If not stopped in its tracks MAGA will eventually recreate the Third Reich in America.

The flavor and nuances wil be different but the results essentially the same. Tyranny of the Minority in pursuit of great benefit for the few.

Liberty will become what the Fuhrer says it is, the party will kiss the Fuhrer's a*s to stay in the Fuhrer's protected tribe of brown shirts in congress, and weak minded fearful people will follow out of fear for their well being.

America is being changed by an anti democractic, anti rule of law, pro authoritarian, and self interested opportunist Moron and his Party of a*s kissing Nimrods in congress.

The Orange King Turd is already talking about "ways around the ruling". The envelope will continue to be pushed and November 2026 and November 2028 may very well be the country's last opportunity to salvage our democratic republic and start a slow return to sanity again.