Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed

Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed. Trump had used the act to charge huge levies on countries, including 50% on India, which was later reduced, and 34% on China.

By Friday night, the president posted on Truth Social that he signed an executive order enabling him to bypass Congress and impose a 10% tax on imports from around the world. “It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” Trump wrote.

Less than 24 hours later, Trump said he was bumping up the tariffs to 15% “based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday.”

  • alonsohmtz@feddit.uk
    46·
    2 days ago

    Imagine if he was this enthusiastic about raising taxes on the people robbing the working class.

  • Solrac@lemmy.world
    37·
    2 days ago

    So, basically, starving the peeps of the US, while, every other country, moves out of the US trade.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
    140·
    2 days ago

    He is, for some stupid fucking reason, allowed to impose tarrifs for 150 days.

    Then it goes to congress to vote on whether to keep them, and they likely won’t.

    What a fucking asshole

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      662·
      2 days ago

      and they likely won’t.

      You mean the same Republican-dominated congress that has basically given him handjobs every time he breaks a fucking law and does something that is actually under the direction of congress? The same Republican-dominated congress that has essentially abdicated any responsibility to govern at all? I’m skeptical, but I hope you’re right.

      What a fucking asshole

      For real, this is another mask-off moment. He had played up the tariffs as a game to push other countries around, but clearly and literally the only reason he is doing this is because he’s pissed off at the Supreme Court. It has fuck-all to do with other countries because it’s the same rate, worldwide, with no room for negotiations. He’s supposed to be this great negotiator of trade deals with other countries, yet he’s blowing up every single potential trade deal with a flat 15% worldwide because he’s pissed off at people in his own government.

      If people can’t tell that he doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything except pushing people around, doesn’t matter who or about what, they’re fucking idiots. He’s just a cruel fucking asshole, like you said.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        2 days ago

        If people can’t tell that he doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything except pushing people around, doesn’t matter who or about what, they’re fucking idiots.

        I’ve been spending more time on Facebook, to get sort of a bead on the general consensus. Even accounting for bots, there are a lot of fucking idiots in this country.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 days ago

      Where does the 150 days come from? FFS, we had nearly a full year before SCOTUS struck down the shit he started last year.

      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        The 150 day limit is part of the law he is citing to justify this set of tariffs.

        The Trade Act of 1974.

          • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
            9·
            2 days ago

            Only up to 15% and only for 150 days. After that Congress has to approve an extension.

            That being said… I don’t know if there is any actual codified safeguard in it to prevent him from just stopping it and starting a new set again. I haven’t looked at the exact wording.

            • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
              1·
              9 hours ago

              If the last ~400 days suddenly has been illegal then you would think that his new order would already be meaningless. If not then why wouldn’t he just write a new executive 149 days that implements a new set of tarrifs and cancels the previous set?

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
    423·
    2 days ago

    Ya’ll Americans are cooked. A national sales tax that a crazy bastard will steal for himself and you don’t have guns to do anything about it.

      • Belazor@lemmy.zip
        381·
        2 days ago

        Because Americans claim they need the second amendment and all its school-shootey downsides in order to protect themselves against a tyrannical government.

        Then a tyrannical government appears, and said government also starts executing your citizens in the streets.

        Maybe it’s just my leftist bubble of woke protecting me from the truth, but I have heard exactly 0 cases of armed resistance from the people referenced in the first paragraph of this post.

      • D_C@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 days ago

        The couch fucker fucks couches, I think we can all agree on that…but he absolutely must be less of an imbecile than the orange child fucker, surely?

        • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          Nah Vance 100% is going to be doing shady shit and making a lot of unethical deals to push through executive orders and influence legislation to benefit his benefactors.

          If the GOP honestly thought Vance would be better they’d be trying to force trump out by now so Vance can do damage control for the midterms. They know the vice pedophile is just as bad as the pedophile in chief so they won’t do anything. Or worse, the GOP is so weak and divided now they don’t have the votes to do anything without the magats and they’ve burned every bipartisan bridge down to the waterline.

    • smeenz@lemmy.nz
      4·
      2 days ago

      Those cheeseburdlers have been very disappointing to all, in their ongoing failure to do their job.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    2 days ago

    So did he just blow up all of those trade deals he made to spite the SC, or are all those countries exempt from the 15%? Based on the UK response quoted in the article, it seems they have similar questions…

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      1 day ago

      No one knows. This entire thing is a temper tantrum.

      He’s apparently applying these tariffs under a different law than the one they used previously, which does explicitly allow the president to apply temporary (150 days) tariffs of up to 15%. So you would assume this is meant to replace the tariffs the SC struck down.

      But he’s also stated that the previous tariffs are going to stay in effect, just under a different legal theory. So in his mind, it’s possible that he thinks this 15% is on top of the existing amounts, and he’s literally just tariffing the whole world harder because he’s mad about a decision by his judiciary.

      Then again, maybe he’s just a dementia-ridden old idiot who can’t keep his own bullshit straight for more than 30 seconds.

      • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I 100% agree, especially with the dementia part. But I also think that his handlers are goading him towards actions that destabilize the US and therefore drastically break the Image the rest of the world has of the US. Not that it was a good image, but it was one of power. We have rapidly moved from one of the 3 main powers fighting for control of the world to a absolute mess plagued by fascists.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      10·
      2 days ago

      He started as a halfwit, and dementia has diminished that. Don’t expect reason or sense. It’s all reaction to being told no.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    46·
    2 days ago

    Supreme Court: your tariffs are illegal

    Orange Jackass: fine, I’ll impose different tariffs and I’ll make them worse just to spite you

  • Smaile@lemmy.ca
    7·
    1 day ago

    Lol, I have a real question, does anything actually happen when Trump makes these outlandish terrif statement?

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    481·
    2 days ago

    This is Trump’s “power move”.

    We know it’s illegal. He knows it’s illegal. He wants everyone to know that he knows it’s illegal, and he’ll do it anyway. What are you gonna do? Yell at him?

    He will continue to escalate, he takes great delight in “sticking it” to anyone who disagrees with him. There is no line that he won’t cross.

    He takes even more delight in “sticking it” to people who AGREE with him. As a rapist, he rapes anybody he can any way he can.

    • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 days ago

      I think it’s kind of Legal? Smoot -Hawley from 1934-ish was never taken off the books. I cant remember if that’s the one he’s using for this, but it’s like that. There’s a never-used vestigial law that lets him do up to 15% for 150 days.

      As much of a known-destroyer of America he is, this is Congress failing to do it’s bare minimum job of holding the purse strings. They could stop him tomorrow and we would be better off if everyone realized thst

      Edit: this one isn’t smoot-hawley (1930), sorry. Trade act of 1974. 15%, 150 days and a lot of exemptions under section 122. Congress should still do it job

      • Pirat@lemmy.orgEnglish
        33·
        2 days ago

        I think it’s kind of Legal?

        Here’s the thing. The constitution says CONGRESS levies taxes, not the president. Any law CONGRESS passes must be IN PURSUANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. Making a law that abrogates any part the constitution is not IN PURSUANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. The only way to do that is TO AMEND the constitution.

        So, no. It’s not kind of legal.

        and any judge worth the air it would take make such a statement should FUCKING KNOW THAT!

        • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 days ago

          Congress has ceded more and more authority to the executive and Trump is taking advantage of that. This law (1974) grants the president the ability to levy tariffs up to 15% for 150 days. That Congress sucks is against the spirit of the constitution but not the letter of it

          • Pirat@lemmy.orgEnglish
            5·
            2 days ago

            But that’s the point. Congress CANNOT cede authority without amending the constitution. Any ‘law’ they make doing so is invalid because it violates the constitution. A LAW CANNOT OVERRIDE THE CONSTITUTION.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      This time is technically legal because of Hawley, but it should go back to when he started this dumb shit in the first place. We’ll see if we can get a Federal Judge to smack this down in the next week.

      All these companies collecting this money just need to fucking stop, and say “Fine then sue me” to the WH, but then of course we know they’ll be flooded with ICE. Trump has a private army now that needs to be dealt with in order to stop all this shit.

      • HermitBee@feddit.uk
        1·
        24 hours ago

        All these companies collecting this money just need to fucking stop, and say “Fine then sue me” to the WH

        There aren’t companies collecting the money. Customs and Border Patrol receives (paid for) goods, inspects them, charges a tariff, and releases the goods once the company who ordered it have paid the tariff.

        A company has ordered something, paid for it, and receives a bill from CBP saying “pay this tariff or you can’t have the stuff you’ve ordered and paid for”.

          • HermitBee@feddit.uk
            1·
            23 hours ago

            For smaller packages that’s fine, FedEx etc. are allowed to pay the tariffs, then reclaim them from you (plus an admin fee you can get them to waive if you bug them).

            It’s a different arrangement for commercial companies, but the end result is the same - CBP take the tariffs in exchange for the goods, whether they take them from the customer directly, or from a broker like FedEx.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Honestly, I wish they’d all ban together and say we aren’t collecting any of this. The problem is that they individually bend the knee, comply in advance, etc.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    2 days ago

    Who is going to actually enforce these?

    What if people just refuse to collect anything, whether it’s his 10 or 15 percent?

    And tell anyone asking questions to take it up with the Supremes.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    2 days ago

    WHAT? An extra 15% tariff on all this stuff that I don’t export to america!!! Oh no, oh dear!

    Anyways a real man would’ve put a 1111% tariff on everything. Once again the orange child rapist takes the easy way out!!!

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
    25·
    2 days ago

    Mutherfucker was counting on tariffs to offset government revenue after he cut taxes on himself and all his wealthy friends. Which is exactly what made them illegal. What does he think this next round is going to accomplish?