"IEEPA contains no reference to tariffs or duties. The Government points to no statute in which Congress used the word 'regulate' to authorize taxation. And until now no President has read IEEPA to confer such power," Roberts wrote. "We claim no special competence in matters of economics or foreign affairs. We claim only, as we must, the limited role assigned to us by Article III of the Constitution. Fulfilling that role, we hold that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs."

The court upheld a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that ruled Mr. Trump's tariffs were illegal.

The legal battle over Mr. Trump's tariffs marked the first in which the Supreme Court evaluated the legal merits of one of his second-term policies. The high court has allowed the president to enforce many of his plans temporarily while legal proceedings moved forward, but its decision invalidating Mr. Trump's global tariffs is so far the most significant loss of his second term.

Trump's tariffs
While the ruling restricts the president's ability to use IEEPA to set his sweeping duties, it does not prevent the president from imposing tariffs under different trade authorities. Mr. Trump has already relied on other laws to slap levies on copper, steel and aluminum imports, as well as other products.

Tariffs are a centerpiece of Mr. Trump's economic agenda in his second term. The president has used the threat of levies to push trading partners to negotiate trade deals that are more favorable to the U.S. and has argued that they will help boost domestic manufacturing.

Mr. Trump claimed ahead of a decision that because of tariffs, "our Country is financially, AND FROM A NATIONAL SECURITY STANDPOINT, FAR STRONGER AND MORE RESPECTED THAN EVER BEFORE." He also warned that an adverse ruling would force the U.S. to pay back significant sums of money to importers, which would be "a complete mess, and almost impossible for our country to pay."

Reporters at the White House were waiting to enter a meeting between the president and the nation's governors on Friday morning, but were sent back to the press area moments after the decision came down. The ruling comes four days before the president's first State of the Union address, where he is expected to tout the major accomplishments of his first year.

The dispute before the Supreme Court involved two sets of duties that the president rolled out through a series of executive orders last year. Mr. Trump invoked IEEPA's emergency powers to impose the tariffs, which he said were necessary to respond to "large and persistent" trade deficits and to stem the flow of illicit fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. IEEPA had not been previously used to impose tariffs.

The first set of tariffs set an initial baseline rate of 10% on nearly every U.S. trading partner, as well as higher reciprocal rates on dozens of countries. The second tranche of levies targeted China, Canada and Mexico.

IEEPA authorizes the president to "regulate … importation" to deal with "any unusual and extraordinary threat" to national security, foreign policy or the U.S. economy. Mr. Trump argued that trade imbalances and the fentanyl coming into the country constituted such a threat.

The president announced the import taxes last February and in April, on what he called "Liberation Day." Since then, the administration has announced framework trade agreements with more than a dozen countries and the European Union, and has said it is negotiating with many other nations.

Two sets of small businesses and a group of 12 states filed lawsuits in two different courts arguing that IEEPA doesn't authorize Mr. Trump's sweeping tariffs. Three lower courts have since ruled that the president did not have the power to unilaterally impose the global and trafficking-related tariffs under IEEPA.

Despite the losses in the lower courts, the Trump administration has kept collecting the import taxes as the court fight moved to the Supreme Court. The president has also continued to turn to IEEPA to impose new tariffs or change existing rates, including hitting Brazil with 40% tariffs on certain goods, though some have since been removed, and imposing 25% levies on imports from India as punishment for importing Russian oil.

The U.S. generated $195 billion in tariff revenue in fiscal year 2025, according to the Treasury Department, and $28 billion in January.

Scores of businesses from across the country have filed lawsuits challenging the legality of the duties. Major companies like Costco, Crocs and Revlon that have turned to the courts and have said they are seeking full refunds of the levies they've paid on imports as a result of the president's policies.

>>1490923
They didn't work anyway
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/us-trade-deficit-totaled-901-billion-in-2025-despite-trumps-tariffs.html

>>1490923
Lmao. Now we get to watch the massive lawsuits against this fucking admin from every major company in the US.

>>1490923
>Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito dissented.
Classic that the most fascist republican justices ones would blindly support trump's power grab

consumers paid the tariffs, companies will get the money back, prices of shit wont change.

good work, republicans.

I kinda half expected SCROTUS to go 6-3 for tariffs being legal but I guess it would be too blatant even for them. They were taking an awful amount of time to come to such a clear and obvious decision though.

>>1490934
The big problem was trump and his lawyers made fucking awful arguments in favor of why he should be able to ignore the legislative branch and do things unilaterally even when Roberts and the other republican justices attempted to bail them out multiple times.
So the only defense was Thomas and Altio thinking the president is a dictator who can do whatever he wants or Kavanaugh just going 'it's too hard to refund everyone so we shouldn't bother'

Given trump just ignores the courts, there's also a good chance he just refuses to refund anything too.

>>1490934
They know Trump is going to crash the fuck out and the implications for all the companies that had to pay the tariffs were gonna be massive. Probably were hesitating to rip the bandaid off.

>>1490940
>CNN added that Trump was furious after learning of the decision.
>"These fucking courts," the president allegedly said, per the network.
Wonder how Roberts feels that he's about to get fucked big time by the person he helped make a dictator

>>1490939
You seemed to have followed the trial more closely. Did they say anything about refunding businesses in their decision?

Reminder that Republicans budgeted under the delusion that this shit would hold up so on top of causing massive price increases for US consumers for no fucking reason we now have to come up with 180 billion dollars to pay companies that already fucking got paid by increasing prices.

Trump turbofucked American consumers and taxpayers to the benefit of corporations.

>>1490943
Given the tariffs were unconstitutional, it'll be required that trump refund everything.
That's was Kavanaugh's excuse to dissenting
>“The interim effects of the Court’s decision could be substantial,” Kavanaugh wrote in his dissent. “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. As was acknowledged at oral argument, the refund process is likely to be a ‘mess.’”

Also unless you're a company like Costco that ate trump's tariff taxes and didn't pass them onto consumers, you're screwed as a consumer either way since the money refunds go to the corporations and not the people.
The only bright point is we're about to see which corporations are going price gouge by not bringing down prices.

On the flip side, there's a good chance trump just refuses to refund anything and try and find some loophole or some other vaguely worded law to keep the tariffs going and continue to harm the US economy

>>1490948
>conservative arguing that a government tax can't be repealed because then government would have to fix the wrongs it did
fucking unreal how conservatism is nowadays

On top of this, the economy is a dumpster fire thanks to republican policies
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-leaks-disastrous-economic-figure-in-typo-filled-post/

>Thousands of companies globally have filed lawsuits that challenge Trump’s tariffs and seek refunds. More than 1,800 tariff‑related suits have been filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade, according to Reuters.


>Asked to evaluate the effectiveness of Trump’s tariffs in light of additional data showing the U.S. trade deficit grew last year, University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers couldn’t stop laughing.
>"Hahahahahahahahahahaha ... hahahahahahahaha ... hahahahahahahahahaha ... oh, wow,” he said on CBC.
https://bsky.app/profile/justinwolfers.bsky.social/post/3mfc5ml3rcx2k

>He added: “If the trade deficit this year is bigger than it was last year, and this year we have high tariffs in a trade war, and last year we didn’t, I guess it doesn’t require a lot of fancy statistics to infer that Trump’s tariffs didn’t help the trade deficit.”

Given the normal shills haven't even come to this thread to run damage control or try to derail it, you know this is disaster for trump.

>>1490965
There's nothing they can do here. This is an objective defeat not even Trump can undo unless he wants to destroy the supreme court completely. Even the argument of "oh he can reinstate the tariffs on a non emergency basis, that isn't directly covered!" rings hollow because there's still the fact all the tariffs collected under liberation day were illegal and the admin is about to be buried in lawsuits.

Even if they do refunds, it won't really fix the damage. Consumers ain't gonna see any refunds at all and companies that went out of business or heavily downsized their operations because the tariffs were too much won't be fixed in any way. A lot of small hobby businesses just fucking died because of those tariffs, and they won't be able to come back.
Also the refund situation will be so stupid and confusing that the big companies will claim they can't lower prices because they didn't get enough refund or it doesn't count or it got taxed to shit somehow (even if none of that is true).

Good.
Anon, no one but massive corporations are getting refunds, or possibly some rich individuals will as well, but that's it. That type of pattern is the same for many stories.
Of course it would be to complicated to undo it all, so they won't.
This is a win for the world, make no mistake.
Fuck Trump and his minions with AIDS rakes.

*too complicated
Again, fuck that orange nigger baboon retard. He needs to back to Florida and just eat McDonald's all day long as he gets super angry at the news.

>>1490923
You lost tranny. Trump 2028. MIGA.

>>1490972
You're mentally ill and in a cult.

>>1490954
>"Hahahahahahahahahahaha ... hahahahahahahaha ... hahahahahahahahahaha ... oh, wow,” he said on CBC.
Best quote

>>1490954
Foreigners have the most to say on Trump's tariffs.

>>1490923
Trump just had his live crashout in regards to this. Says now he's gonna be tariffing even harder under a national security excuse.

>>1490977
Meanwhile trump was joined by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who was implicated in the Epstein List, but because he's a republican, he won't be investigated, same with trump.

Also how can he use the national security excuse when he admitted to tariffing Switzerland because he couldn't help be a sexist asshole to their leader?

>>1490978
>Also how can he use the national security excuse
Same way the US can declare war without going through congress.
The President has a litany of tools at his disposal to do whatever he wants so long as he has the political will. He can still impose tariffs, all he needs is a valid excuse.

>>1490977
Imagine crashing out and charging Japan more than China. I just know Chinese shipping companies are smirking

>>1490966
>This is an objective defeat not even Trump can undo unless he wants to destroy the supreme court completely.
I mean if he was somehow able to do this, it wouldn't be all that bad. The Supreme Court has shown it has no protections against justices simply throwing the law out the window and doing whatever they want. It either needs reform or total dissolution before someone else packs it in their favor.

>>1490979
Then the courts shoot it down because it clear there isn't a real emergency given how trump is abusing them.
At least it looks like the UK put a stop to trump's latest illegal war, by stopping his planned attack on Iran.

>>1490977
Sounds like cope because he doesn't want to admit he lost. If he could've always tariffed us even more, he would've done so already

>>1490983
POTUS is the one that decides whether there's a national security threat, not congress or SCOTUS.
Democrats genuinely don't understand that Trump is incredibly reserved in regards to exercising his full powers because he can basically do anything he wants using existing precedent. And if precedent doesn't exist, he can simply do things until a legal challenge works its way through the courts, which still takes months.
>At least it looks like the UK put a stop to trump's latest illegal war
Israel has been trying to coerce the US to destroy Iran for the last 30 years. They're not going to stop just because the UK denied them a few airbases.

court rulings mean nothing without enforcement.

>>1490986
>Democrats genuinely don't understand that Trump is incredibly reserved in regards to exercising his full powers because he can basically do anything he wants using existing precedent.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha ... hahahahahahahaha ... hahahahahahahahahaha ...
Only thing trump hasn't done is invoke the insurrection act to cancel the elections and turn himself into a dictator, which has no precedent. Also it would mean the death of America too.

Yep, he just held a briefing where he says he's signing an executive order to impose a global 10% tariff.

>>1490992
So he's defying the courts, I'm sure Roberts is kicking himself in the head for ruling that trump is a king who is above the law.

>>1490990
We're talking in the context of international trade, anon. He could embargo any nation he wants and use the excuse that he's doing these things to ensure America's security.

>>1490976
>University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers
>foreigner
bro you're retarded

>>1490992
Slight correction, he stated he's keeping all of the tariffs the Supreme Court just struck down in place AND signing an executive order increasing them by a further 10%.

>>1490996
>Justin Wolfers
>born in Papua New Guinea
Yep.

Trump is the most unfairly treated president in all of history. It makes me so angry. Trump is /ourguy/. An attack on Trump is an attack on //ONEOFUS\\ is an attack on //ALLOFUS\\.

>>1490998
He has US citizenship, he is American.

>>1491001
If you shit in the kitchen, does it make it food?

>>1491003
>a shit is shat out the kitchen
>the shit gets allowed in
>the shit gets compared with a lot of other food prepared in the kitchen
>the other food made in the kitchen were so bad they look worse than shit
>shit gets good academic positions, awards, output work good enough to land it air time on TV as an expert
I don't know why don't you tell me.

And he's already illegally imposing more tariffs.
The Federal Marshals need to arrest him now, but they won't because that oath they took doesn't mean jack. Same for the military. It's all about their own personal worship. That's what those "wounded warrior" commercials are all about, getting you to worship soldiers and the flag. The nation doesn't mean anything anymore.

>>1491004
>shit gets good academic positions, awards, output work good enough to land it air time on TV as an expert
The problem here isn't the poo, it's the people who think a poo is something other than a poo.

>>1490923
So in response, Trump has decided
>He's randomly giving 10% tariffs to everyone
>He's just gonna start ordering blockades and wars now
>The supreme court has actually been compromised by foreign assets and that's why they ruled against him
He's crashing the fuck out lol. Repubs need to get this retard out of office before he starts WW3 over the balance of powers existing.

>>1491009
Literally this. The USA government has abandoned the American people, anon. We're on our own from here on out.

>>1491007
He has American citizenship and his work on American economics is well regarded. You can call him whatever you like but at the end of the day you're just a 4chan shitposter and have no credibility on the economy compared to him.

>>1490923
trump is above the law they cant do this to him

>can do anything he wants
>can declare embargoes
>can declare war and draft all the zoomies and dump them on a country
>can flatten them with nukes
>but can't charge them a nickel in trade tariffs
Explain this to me libtards.

>>1491032
> can do anything he wants

Nope. That’s literally the whole point.
The President can’t "do anything he wants". Not after 1936, and definitely not after Harlan Steel.

Quick civics refresher:

1. War powers aren’t the same as taxation powers. The Constitution puts the power to tax and regulate commerce in Congress. Always has. Tariffs are taxes. You don’t get to magic that away because it’s foreign trade.

2. After the Smoot-Hawley disaster wrecked half the economy, Congress passed the Trade Powers Clarification Act (1936) specifically to stop presidents from playing roulette with tariff rates. Turns out "I feel like 40% today" is not a stable trade policy.

3. Then came United States v. Harlan Steel (1937). The Supreme Court ruled that tariffs are a legislative power and that you can’t hand the President a blank check just by yelling "national security".One of the justices literally wrote: "Emergency does not manufacture authority."

4. Yes, the President can:
- impose embargoes under statutory authority
- command the military
- respond to armed attacks
But those powers come from different constitutional clauses and different statutes. Different buckets. Different rules.

You’re comparing war powers (Article II commander-in-chief stuff + congressional authorization) with taxation power (Article I, Section 8. Explicitly Congress)
It’s not hypocrisy. It’s separation of powers. Read Antoine de la Pirelle again.

If anything, it makes sense historically. Every time a president unilaterally spiked tariffs in the early 20th century, the markets tanked, allies retaliated, and farmers got crushed. So Congress tightened the leash.

>>1491037
But have you considered Trump v United States where the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have absolute immunity and can do whatever they'd like?

>>1490980
Japan's currently in full anti-China mode thanks to their new zogbot PM.
They will continue allowing America to fuck them in the ass.

>>1491037
>The President can’t "do anything he wants".
All this kvetching over civics misses the obvious point that SCOTUS is more concerned with the way the law is enacted, not the real-world consequences of Trump's actions. So long as Trump can find a legal avenue to enact tariffs, he invariably will.

>>1491038
They ruled that the president has immunity when carrying out his duties. And they get to decide what does and doesn't fall under those duties.

The problem with tariffs is that they should have been implemented 40 years ago, before outsourcing became a thing. The purpose of tariffs is to incentivize your own country's production. Trump is another boomer that doesn't understand that there are literally three hundred miles of land in China that are nothing but warehouses and manufacturing plants. That simply doesn't exist in the US and can't realistically exist because we have EPA laws and OSHA laws. I get the point of what Trump is saying, but his boomer brain is decades late to the party

>>1491044
Do people seriously think the tariffs are actually for reshoring manufacturing?
If that was the case, they would NOT tariff raw materials like aluminum which they would absolutely need to start ramping up domestic production.
The tariffs are simply to further fleece Americans with more taxes while crushing smaller businesses so his oligarch buddies can buy up everything.

>>1491045
You are correct. I'm talking about the purpose of tariffs 50-75 years ago. They were a protectionist policy before globalism. Manufacturing infrastructure took fifty years in China. You can't bring it back in one presidential term. Boomers don't understand this concept though

>>1491045
True. The media think it's cool. If Obama were prez right now they'd be calling him a nigger themselves.

>>1491045
>Do people seriously think the tariffs are actually for reshoring manufacturing?
It's not about reshoring, it's retribution. Trump won because he promised to be the vengeance of all the screwed over Americans. We don't care if things gotta get worse to get even.

>>1490972
kys fgt.

>>1491057
Every single conservative on here is
>Not a single girl so much as looked at me in highschool, so billions must die.
>Joker.png

>>1491045
>Do people seriously think the tariffs are actually for reshoring manufacturing?
No it would take decades of tariffs to have any effect and with Democruds opposing them to suck the sticky load out of billionaires, companies know the tariffs are just a flash in the pan.
Now suck a fuck, faggot.
>If that was the case, they would NOT tariff raw materials like aluminum which they would absolutely need to start ramping up domestic production.
The US has Aluminum, fucktard. We have tons of raw materials. What we don't have is a solid mining industry.
>The tariffs are simply to further fleece Americans with more taxes while crushing smaller businesses so his oligarch buddies can buy up everything
A guy who loves taxes explaining how these taxes do what they do? Interesting, again.

>>1490923
>>1490924
>>1490925
>>1490926
>>1490929
That's nice but what is going to happen to the effectively billions wiped from the economy? Oh right nothing, the courts move like dinosaurs while these corporations are raptors who pile on, devour, and flee before morning.

They're doing the same shit with AI right now. Nvidia JUST got a court order for the billions they've stolen to train their AI models, and are likely going to get more for the datacenters they're building on taxpayer's dime without anyone's consent. They don't care, the amount any court could fine them is pennies compared to how much they got from breaking the law.

Effectively, what will happen to Trump? Will he be arrested? No. Will he have his wages or property garnished? lol. Will he be able to stop issuing tariffs? IEEPA is just one way he has powers to authorize executive tariffs, he has 5 other agencies he can go through thanks to the rot of the Patriot Act, one of which is homeland security which is 100% under his control.

I like that one way got smacked down but until we legally decide to reset the entire executive branch to pre-2001 powers, it means nothing.

>SCOTUS says Trump can't use one law for tariffs
>SCOTUS also says Trump can use other laws for tariffs
>this is too complicated for liberals and zoomers
why are you people like this? are you pretending to be retarded or just actually retarded? he's going to use a different law for the same tariffs ffs.
who gives a shit what law he uses when the result is the same?

>>1491082
It's not really the same because the other ways are capped at 10-15%, expire after a set time period and require congressional review to extend. So he can't just randomly go "150% tariff on Sweden forever because my IKEA meatballs were cold and the cashier looked at me funny".
Abusing the IEEPA gave a lot more freedom (since it wasn't actully intended to be used for tariffs in the first place and therefore had no explicit limitations in regards to them). Plus it's also a major setback in his "trade deals" since with everything capped he can't use different rates as a bargaining chip or threat for different countries. There's a reason he was crashing out so hard after the ruling.

>>1491059
Not true at all. Don't you know how Grindr use surges are the RNC? These people are self-hating closet cases and eggs.

>>1490997
Awesome, Democrats now have a precedent that they can ignore the Roberts court.
And Republicans are using it on an economic policy that only makes them more unpopular.

Is it true that the Liberation Day Tariffs are still on? That he's ignoring the Supreme Court and just tacking on an extra 10%?

>>1491093
No, the IEEPA based tariffs are all effectively stopped now, but there were other tariffs in place prior to those which are unaffected like the tariffs on steel. Those would see the extra 10% tacked on.
Though given the massive clusterfuck this ruling is going to cause in the coming weeks with hundreds of refund lawsuits and other legal challenges I wouldn't count on anything, and this could just be another empty threat from him with TACO tuesday around the corner.

>>1491084
This, along with the fact that trump just punished countries for non national security reasons and because he was a little bitch.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5732984-trump-switzerland-tariffs-phone-call/

>>1491094
Also where all the $175 billion in illegally collected tariff money currently is. People are assuming it's in an off shore account in Qatar just like the slush fund for the Epstein ballroom and the money from the oil trump extorted out of Venezuela.

>>1491095
>People are assuming it's in an off shore account in Qatar just like the slush fund for the Epstein ballroom and the money from the oil trump extorted out of Venezuela.
Crazies off of DailyKOS, the extremist website, I'd assume.

>>1491084
>require congressional review to EXTEND
That's the part I'm worried about. He only gets to decide on 5 whole months of a 10% tax on Americans. Sure Congress wouldn't extend it but the point is he can still start it and that lasts a really long time without congressional approval

Who's to say his loopholes won't be finding all the little things that give him 10% here and there and adding them all up to the rates we were seeing before?

If there's one thing this presidency proved, it's that he can do whatever the fuck he wants and the legal system will just roll over and take it. I mean this has been a YEAR of illegally-collected tariffs before the Supreme Court could say anything, and that was them "fast-tracking" it.

>>1490934
>who put so many in the SCOTUS who would support Trump: but ultimately didn't when he needed them to
You voted for this, Trumptards.

>>1491099
*He alone gets to decide

>>1490972
>MIGA
And then you wonder why Mamdani won in NYC
'Mamdani is a very rational man' -Trump
So Trump's right about a Muslim mayor of NYC and you only have the right to agree with him, or he's wrong, and all your opinions are wrong too. Choose wisely, tranny Trumptard and Trump also likes trannies

>>1491003
By your logic none of the modern Americans are citizens.
>>1490923
Hahahahaha. Oh nononononono. Blumpftards on suicide watch

>>1491103
This bot is retarded.

>>1491072
This is the problem with actual uni party rule, not the hyperbolic, "both democrats and republicans are right wing and only push the interests of the rich" we see, but the fact that because republicans control the legislature, they will do nothing to reign trump in.

>>1491105
meant for >>1490972

>>1491099
I think in that case at least the SC ruling sets a precedent for stronger legal challenges against exploiting those "loopholes" in the future, plus the optics of defying the SC (even if he follows the ruling to the letter and is no longer using IEEPA, the "spirit" of the ruling is that he is abusing broad taxation power reserved for congress) and his own appointed judges while being sued left and right is terrible. And yes I know he personally doesn't give a shit about optics but others in his party do.

>>1491082
We were illegally taxed for the last year you fucking retard. Every cent he claimed with those tariffs is now officially stolen money; it doesn't matter if he reimplements them in a "legal" way.

>>1491109
He's going to do it anyway, this is why he's dead focused on stealing the midterms with his voter suppression laws and and poll taxes.

>>1491107
>>1491082
It's even worse than that.
Our government is proving to work almost entirely on the honor system. If someone gets in, and law enforcement doesn't walk in the door of someone breaking the law and arrests them, then the law is purely optional for them. Even with judges throwing around subpoenas, rulings, and warrants- They're just men in dresses if no one actually goes out and does what their rulings demand. The ICE detainees who were ordered released multiple times over months and still haven't been are proof of that.

We're just effectively under martial law in all but name. The law is attempting to enforce itself where it can but is largely ignored. When the law comes back around, nobody will be punished for it.

>>1491091
The problem is that Democrats are pussies. They will NEVER have a government where a judge makes a ruling and all of their law enforcement just ignores it and keeps doing what they're doing. But having a government where rule of law is purely on the honor system is a requirement to fix the country after someone like Trump fucks it up.

Once his term is over, they're all going to collect their paychecks and go laughing into the sunset as angry judges pretend they have some kind of power over punishing them for the last few years. Instead what will happen is Republicans will strike a deal with Dems not to prosecute anyone if they make a few scapegoats, and then never, ever repeal or change any law because that would be undemocratic.

>>1491111
>Muh liggeral headcanon
Eat shit, queer.

>>1491111
That's the thing
He doesn't need to steal midterms, federal law enforcement is already ignoring the judiciary and anyone in the house who isn't 100% pro-trump, they'll just keep doing the same even if they do lose the house.

>Oh the house is going to have a committee to give me a stern talking to before voting to impeach me?
>that's nice, tell it to the ICE Agents who will be visiting your districts later

And that will be the end of Democratic """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""response""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" because this is literally what happened in 2018. It was just arguably much less corrupt then.

>>1491108
No it wasn't, but yeah that other bot is retarded too. Schizo bot poster, stop being schizo while bot posting.

>>1491109
>I think in that case at least the SC ruling sets a precedent for stronger legal challenges against exploiting those "loopholes"
Oh no those men in dresses on the bench are really going to wave their gavels as federal law enforcement continues to ignore them.

When they're dragging corrupt politicians out of town hall meetings, I'll start to pay attention. Until then this is just more guff. More "I told you so" that doesn't stop the problem.

>>1491111
>poll taxes
Which is what ultimately destroyed the favorite PM of Reagan-era Republicans, Maggie Thatcher. What replaced her - John Major, with his Conservative party's political & moral failures - ensured a massive landslide for Labour.
>Trump will have to refund countries affected by tariffs
And who's going to pay for those: you & your billionaire buddies, from your own pockets, Trumpy? Once that starts being paid to said countries out of US taxpayers' money - and Republican voters are already financially suffering way before what's been happening electorally the last few months - the loss of the House will be the least of Trump's problems.
But hey, don't let me stop you from ensuring the Democrats win a massive landslide in late 2028, GOP.

>>1491115
Bot post

>>1491116
It's still better than the rubber stamp he's getting right now.

>>1491114
>Our government is proving to work almost entirely on the honor system.
That was given with trump's first term where you see what happens if a man with no honor becomes president.
Also the democrats are pussies who should have run hard on prosecuting their preceding republicans administration.
Clinton should have prosecuted Bush for the cover up on Iran Contra.
Obama should have prosecuted Bush jr for his war crimes
Biden had a slam dunk prosecution for trump's failed coup.
If Biden made going after trump a day 1 priority, the right wing would not have had time to regroup and run damage control and they would be much more likely to have cut bait.

More tantrum news, he's now rasing that global 10% tariff to 15%

>>1491135
There's literally no difference. Do you want the old man in the corner to be happy, or sad? The old man still has no say or power to change anything while everyone's rights are stripped and we more and more resemble a Dictatorship

>>1491213
I am demoralized now Ivan, better just keep voting republican...

>>1491174
We'll see on Monday. This is going to have a bunch of legal challenges right out the gate because while Section 122 does grant tariff powers, the criteria for enacting it no longer currently exist, hence why it's never actually been used.
Plus all his "trade deals" from the past year are going to start blowing up because now he is capped at 15% with the clock ticking while other countries can slap whatever % they want on American goods in retaliation while they continue making favorable deals with China.
Accuse me of copium if you want, but people were doomposting for months that the SC were going to rule in his favor on this and they didn't. His economic policy is crashing hard.

>>1491217
To be fair, no one expected the Republican supreme court to declare trump was a king who was above the law because the case trump's lawyer's made were so retarded, yet they still did it while acting as a rubber stamp to all his other stuff like mass firing for not being personally loyal, racial profiling of minorities, and discrimination.

>>1491222
Destroying the economy is crossing a line even for his own party, while his select inner circle are making out like bandits, others are not happy about him doubling down on this bullshit just out of spite after the SC gave him an easy offramp.

>>1491225
Biden destroyed the economy with 25% inflation over his presidency
>>1486447

>>1491226
how many times have you repeated this lie esl shill

>>1491227
The period from January 20, 2021 (Biden's inauguration) to January 20, 2025 (end of his term) saw significant cumulative inflation in the U.S. economy, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Food: Cumulative increases were around 20-25% over the period, with notable spikes in 2021-2022. Food at home (groceries) rose sharply early on (e.g., double-digit annual changes in 2022), while food away from home (restaurants) saw steadier but persistent gains. By the end, food inflation had moderated but contributed significantly to the overall burden.
Rent/Shelter: Shelter costs (including rent of primary residence and owners' equivalent rent) were a major driver of persistent inflation, rising cumulatively by roughly 20-25% or more in many analyses. Annual changes peaked around 8% in 2022-2023, and shelter remained elevated (often 4-6% year-over-year) even as headline inflation cooled, making housing one of the stickiest categories.
Energy: This was highly volatile, with cumulative increases around 30-40% in some subcategories (e.g., gasoline rose about 31% overall in some reports). Energy prices spiked dramatically in 2022 due to global events but later moderated or even declined in periods, though electricity and natural gas saw ongoing upward pressure from demand and infrastructure factors.

>>1491226
Inflation caused by Trump’s mismanagement

>>1491225
Given the only people benefiting are trump and the billionaires, who own the republican supreme court, they wouldn't care.

>>1490923
Boy, I dun see me some peculiar sights in my day, but hot dang, a Democrat pissin' him boots happy about less taxes?
That's peculiar.

>>1491231
Then why are the billionaires sending their late night comedians to assail the policy?
Do you even continuity, faggot?

>>1491233
What?

>>1491235
don't mind him, he's not american

>>1491217
>>1491222
>Accuse me of copium if you want, but people were doomposting for months that the SC were going to rule in his favor on this and they didn't. His economic policy is crashing hard.
This does surprise me. I think everyone expected this supreme court to get on their hands and knees and suck his dick forever but for some reason even this was too much for even them.

Too bad they can't do that about the widespread spying and how this is being used to detain people unlawfully and then ignore their court orders, but I guess we have to start somewhere

>>1491247
Feels like they’re breaking from the increasingly-crazy Trump in anticipation of supporting whoever’s next in line. Get some good boy points to distract people from how they’re still tearing the country apart.

>>1491248
>>1491247
You're going to get rug pulled the second they start ruling in his favor again after this.

>>1491250
Oh no, believe me, that wouldn’t be a surprise at all.

>>1491248
Do they expect swing voters to forget that republicans have been lock in step with Trump for the last 10 years?
Saying you don’t like him doesn’t mean much when you’ve consistently sided with him on every issue for the past decade

>>1491254
Why in the fuck would anyone care when Democrat policies are a nightmare.

>>1491258
you're literally not american or white

>>1491259
Yes, I'm an illegal immigrant from Bolivia, faggot.

>>1491261
the fake job is all yours you lousy shill

>>1491261
Just a turbofag, livin' in a faggot world
He took the midnight van goin' anywhere
Just a Latin boy, born and raised in La Guardia
He took the midnight truck goin' anywhere

A faggot in a smoky room
The smell of rape and dungeon
For a thrill, he can kidnap the dude
He goes in and in and in and in

Strangeness rapin'
Up and down the Bolivar
His shadow searchin' in the night
Streetlights, bussy
Livin' just to rape illegals
Hidin' somewhere in the night

>>1491259
Whataboutism
Why are you attacking his status rather than explaining how democrat policy benefits the middle class

>>1491267
Remember when Trump promised to end inflation on day 1 and cut our energy bills in half in under a year?

>>1491267
You'd be more creditable in your questioning if you weren't a brazen ESL who can't even use an adjective properly.

>>1491268
'Member when Democrat policy caused inflation and higher energy bills?
It wasn't that long ago.
Now Dems want back in office based on not being Trump again. A concept the majority of voters rejected in 2024.

>>1491268
Fucking bLoumpf! Can't even fix the economic disaster Democrats caused.
Oh, yeah, vote Democrat if you think the economy is bad lol.

>>1491276
And things have gotten much worse since 2024.

>>1491279
According to whom?
And what further pain do Democrats wish to inflict?

>>1491280
Reality.

>>1491281
OK and what is the plan to fix the problems?
Reminder: being not Trump isn't a solution, as Joe Biden proved.

>Republicans vote for Democrats in Miami, Texas & Louisiana
When Republicans admit that it's now more than impossible for Democrats to do any worse, not supporting MAGA is the solution to the Trump problem.

>>1491286
Democrats don't have a solution, their solution is "We'll fuck you but we'll do it much less discreetly" compared to "I'm going to fuck everyone and give it all to AI datacenters and Israel" which is what we're getting now

>>1491215
shut the fuck up you mentally ill nigger. "aaieee the supreme court is compromised and both parties are the same!!" would be real introspective and deep for a 14 year old, so I'm guessing you're mentally 8, possibly 6.

>>1491115
Bitch I swear to god you'd be banned for avatarfagging on any board with image posting.

>>1490923
>Rules tariffs illegal
>New tariffs already in place under slightly different rules
This post aged badly.

>>1491292
take the skirt off chearleading faggot

>>1491292
>New tariffs already in place
Not in effect yet and only promised via social media ranting. And he's already getting pushback from the EU and UK for violating their latest trade agreements (again). Will be funny when they announce their own 30% tariff on US imports and he can't do shit about it because he got btfo by his own court. All the rest of the world has the upper hand now.

>>1491292
Yeah and all that illegally obtained tariff revenue? Obtaining something legitimately after you get caught stealing it doesn't mean you didn't steal it.

>>1491289
>>1491288
>>1491292
This bot is raging that trump's big way of wrecking the economy and alienating America's real allies was kneecapped.
Also if trump refuses to hand over the illegal tariff money, the next president should just seize the money from trump's personal slush funds he has in Qatar and then give the money back to the people.
Actual Robin Hood stuff.

>>1491296
>PLEASE GIVES THE BILLIONAIRES THEIR TAX DOLLARS BACK!!!!
>Taxation is theft
I see the parties have switched again.

>>1491299
nta they're right, you're a loon who still thinks blue pin or red pin makes a difference in the grand scheme of things. Dems aren't completely helpless babies, they get a chance to do something and piss it away 10/10 times every time.

>>1491313
The parties can't switch if there was never a difference to begin with. There's just a football of public sentiment they pass back and forth.

>>1491315
Generally true for many years. However, it's currently the dRumpf party versus the get dRumpf party.
The get dRumpf party will do ANYTHING to get dRumpf even become ant-tax.

>>1491316
Tariffs are a tax paid by working class people. Corporations pass it down to you

>>1491313
It was an illegal universal tax. Time for Trump to pay the fuck up.