US Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs under IEEPA - The ruling is a blow/boon for Trump's economic agenda.

The Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling on President Donald Trump's authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

His authority to impose such tariffs was the subject of the legal dispute, which saw Trump point to the IEEPA as granting him the authority. The court rejected his position.

"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," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.

Tariffs case.pdf

The ruling is a blow for Trump's economic agenda, though the immediate implications for existing trade agreements are unclear.

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs on nearly every country in a bid to rebalance trade. His efforts have been somewhat successful and he has secured agreements with the UK, EU, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, much of the Pacific Rim, and numerous other key trading partners.

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[Blewberry Nausea]

Prepare for epic Trump tweet followed by the expected workaround they’ve been planning for months in case this happened.

6-3 opinion by the way. Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas dissent.

Also doesn’t seem to be a ruling on repayments that will still have to be litigated separately.

 

[SmugAutist]

Honestly, glad it happened. There's a dozen other levers Trump can pull to get his way in geopolitics and yet he consistently reaches for the tariffs one even when they're ineffective and hurt supply chains. Want us to build more homes? How about you don't change the price of steel by 20% on the fly and potentially leave the developer insolvent.

Find another trick.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Fine, I guess, as long as we still get Total H1B Death.

 

[Pelican Bones]

I regret to inform you all that John Roberts is at it again.

 

[Taser Confetti]

As if the government was going to do anything with those hundreds of billions they collected to benefit US citizens.

 

[JohnnyG]

There's a dozen other levers Trump can pull to get his way in geopolitics and yet he consistently reaches for the tariffs one even when they're ineffective and hurt supply chains

I dunno, they seemed to be pretty effective as a bargaining tool, to get other countries to lower their barriers to American goods. Weren't most of the tariffs tit-for-tat?

I kept reading articles like, "Outrage over Trump's 50% tariff on India" and then eleventeen paragraphs down they'd casually mention how India had had an 85% tariff on America's stuff for years, like that was normal and expected.

Reminds me of that tweet about how every week there's news like "Trump ends diplomatic immunity for MS-13", and you're left asking how that even got put in place and accepted to begin with.

 

[Taser Confetti]

Outrage over Trump's 50% tariff on India" and then eleventeen paragraphs down they'd casually mention how India had had an 85% tariff on America's stuff for years

India’s per capita income is 2200-2500USD per year. It’s a third world country that somehow managed to acquire nukes. They’re not buying anything meaningful from America.

 

[The Big A]

FWIW, This only applies to IEEPA, any tariffs conjured under other trade statues remain, including ones on steel, aluminum, and on China. Kavanaugh even spelled out the loophole in his dissent. I expect a few days before a new EO drops that re-instates most of the tariffs outside of IEEPA. The bad part is that "refunds" have been left in the air, so expect Cali Judge Xia Guo to rule that America must repay China 4 trillion dollars and gum up the legal system for the next few years. This is a classic Roberts ruling, a decision that muddies the waters, sets bad precident without actually checking executive power, and will be open to legal battles for years.

Spoiler

The nightmare is that you can expect birthright citizenship to go the same way.

 

[JohnnyG]

India’s per capita income is 2200-2500USD per year. It’s a third world country that somehow managed to acquire nukes. They’re not buying anything meaningful from America.

That was just an example, but it was a common scenario
- 25% tax on Chinese manufactured goods was in response to their long-standing 15% "base" plus additional selective tariffs on US goods
- For agriculture, Chinese tariffs were 20-70%, vs. 0-5% US tariffs on China
- 25% steel tariff on Europe countered existing 10% car tariffs and 30-100% agriculture

 

[Richard Harrow]

The tariffs were just a tool to get foreign trade deals and pledged investments signed and ready. I have little doubt that this decision was expected and the strategy will simply shift.

 

[IrishGuy088]

The next few weeks should be fun as Trump's opponents misunderstand this ruling entirely and then begin to cry when nothing changes. Then the false narrative that "Trump is ignoring the Supreme Court!!!" can be played out and everyone wins.

 

[JULAY]

I really wish they would have let him continue to be retarded with these tariffs. Now he'll have to find a new way to be retarded, and I'm not sure that he's up to the challenge.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Deal, but only if birthright citizenship is dismantled. I honestly care more about the ruling on that, which will come in the summer.

 

[babyDunk]

The tariffs were just a tool to get foreign trade deals and pledged investments signed and ready. I have little doubt that this decision was expected and the strategy will simply shift.

You grant trump to much credence I think

Deal, but only if birthright citizenship is dismantled. I honestly care more about the ruling on that, which will come in the summer.

You realize that one will not be in his favor right?

I really wish they would have let him continue to be retarded with these tariffs. Now he'll have to find a new way to be retarded, and I'm not sure that he's up to the challenge.

rope is free chud! Stop supporting trump!

 

[GunCar Gary]

Honestly, glad it happened. There's a dozen other levers Trump can pull to get his way in geopolitics and yet he consistently reaches for the tariffs one even when they're ineffective and hurt supply chains. Want us to build more homes? How about you don't change the price of steel by 20% on the fly and potentially leave the developer insolvent.

Find another trick.

i've never seen an argument against Trump's use of tariffs that didn't boil down to "removing my access to slave labor means the line might go down, which will interfere with turning America into a third world shithole"

get bent, commie

 

[Absolutego]

Deal, but only if birthright citizenship is dismantled. I honestly care more about the ruling on that, which will come in the summer.

You can all but guarantee that decision will be of the same caliber, where Roberts joins the libs to keep getting invited to cocktail parties and Barrett felt bad looking at impoverished brown kids or whatnot, with the final ruling being extremely selective, doing nothing to address the underlying issue but being just enough to take the heat off the court for a few years.

This has been bog-standard at least as far as the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, where they ultimately decided the Colorado Human Rights Commission or whatever was too nakedly hostile towards the dude for being religious, threw their lawsuit against him out on that grounds, and a troon called him begging for a gender transition cake literally the next day so they could start the process all over again.

 

[SmugAutist]

i've never seen an argument against Trump's use of tariffs that didn't boil down to "removing my access to slave labor means the line might go down, which will interfere with turning America into a third world shithole"

get bent, commie

The family business is in real estate development. We only hire American. It costs more but we can budget for that reasonably. You know what can't be budgeted for? A sudden increase in materials when you don't have an immediate alternative.

Tariffs are a double edged sword. It can be used effectively so long as you realize the problems it causes within the supply chain and can compensate for that.

 

[MrJokerRager]

You can all but guarantee that decision will be of the same caliber, where Roberts joins the libs to keep getting invited to cocktail parties and Barrett felt bad looking at impoverished brown kids or whatnot, with the final ruling being extremely selective, doing nothing to address the underlying issue but being just enough to take the heat off the court for a few years.

This has been bog-standard at least as far as the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, where they ultimately decided the Colorado Human Rights Commission or whatever was too nakedly hostile towards the dude for being religious, threw their lawsuit against him out on that grounds, and a troon called him begging for a gender transition cake literally the next day so they could start the process all over again.

Colorado has human rights?

 

[Absolutego]

Colorado has human rights?

Like many libshit political bureaucracies, the name isn't meant to be ironic, but it certainly comes off as such.