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The maximum he can do under section 122 is 15%. The law clearly allows it. The only way the SC could stop it would be to say that tariffs are a tax, and Congress can’t delegate taxing authority. I could actually imagine such a decision.
Past Presidents have used targetted tariffs under different authorities. No president has ever used IEEPA to assess tarrifs....which is one of the reasons the court decided the way it did. Once more, executive actions under IEEPA are ntended for national emergencies. Trump argued the trade imbalance was a naitonal emergency. If that's the case, we've had a national emergency since the 1970's. Ironically, our trade deficit went up last year - not down.
No, the ruling was based on the text of the law. It simply didn’t authorize tariffs. Trump argued that the law was ambiguous, so he should be able to interpret it as allowing tariffs. The Courts said that that the power he was claiming was sufficiently weighty that if Congress had wanted to give it to him, they would have done so clearly. This type of reasoning is consistent with how this SC has been operating.
One hand, I understand what you're saying. On the other hand when has not adhering to courts been an issue with Trump? The funny thing about section 122 (that can only last 5 months) it's meant to redress “large and serious United States balance-of-payment deficits” something that has been exacerbated since the implementation of his tariffs.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the chair of the House Oversight Committee, promised "to do whatever the president wants" after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump illegally imposed tariffs around the world.
The main conservative Justice Thomas gave a scathing dissent to what those 6 justices decided!!! That decision about tariffs was totally political. It was unnecessary and disastrous for the economy of this nation. Congress has a 20% approval rating. They can't even decide to pass a law for protecting the ethics of voting protection. AS well, the president does have (as presidents in the past) power to protect and rev up the economy, revenue for the USA. The SCOTUS has become tainted.
The SCOTUS has become tainted with the usual politics. The President is targeted on that platform as he is in every other path he takes trying to protect the interests of the USA.
