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"As many commentators have noted, we are not on the cusp of a constitutional crisis in the United States, we are in an extended vigil for our critically ill Constitution. The coming week might be the point where Trumpism takes the patient off life support and shoots it in the head, however."
~ Timothy Burke
#Trump #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #tariffs #Constitution
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Real lapdogs are much nicer than they are.
"The ruling was in fact scathing and said clearly that Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was a usurpation of taxation authority that belongs to Congress:
'We are therefore skeptical that in IEEPA — and IEEPA alone — Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax …'
"It was all about arbitrary power."
"Trump has reveled in being able to slap tariffs on Brazil for daring to put Jair Bolsonaro on trial for a failed insurrection, being able to threaten France and Germany with tariffs for getting in the way of his attempt to seize Greenland, and of course giving tariff waivers to businesses that help him build his ballroom."
"The desire for that arbitrary power is why he went for IEEPA despite warnings that it might well be ruled unconstitutional.
And alternatives to IEEPA don’t give him that much arbitrary power.
No wonder, then, that he’s throwing a huge temper tantrum."
"Here’s the thing: It was obvious that they were illegal from the minute Trump imposed them. The Constitution very clearly assigns that sort of power exclusively to Congress. The tariffs were an arbitrary exercise of power well outside the rule of law.
But the mainstream news reporters covering Trump just couldn’t bring themselves to say so."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #Constitution #media
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-news-media-chose-not-to-tell
"In most democracies Trump’s reckless and wild abuse of power through his tariffs would cause the government to fall or the leader to be removed.
The imposition of these harmful tariffs against the will of Congress, the courts, our allies, and our people are clear grounds for his removal."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #Constitution
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https://bsky.app/profile/simonwdc.bsky.social/post/3mfcqadleqk2p
Simon Rosenberg gathers news media headlines about the Supreme Court's decision on Trump's tariffs.
#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #Constitution
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/tariffs-struck-down-live-event-at
