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.”

  • Solrac@lemmy.world
    3·
    45 minutes ago

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

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    2 hours 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…

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
    91·
    3 hours 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.

  • Ranulph@thelemmy.club
    21·
    2 hours ago

    Eventually, he is going to expire. In his sleep or at his desk. God preserved him for a purpose. He is fulfilling that purpose in his life one day his purpose will be fulfilled with his passing.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    24·
    5 hours 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

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    7 hours 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.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
    98·
    10 hours 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
      471·
      10 hours 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.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      7 hours 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
        11·
        6 hours 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
            4·
            4 hours 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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 hours ago

    I imagine him in the bunker under the “ball room”, ‘Downfall’ style, surrounded by his bootlickers who just told him about the SCOTUS decision, and he bangs his fists on the table and screams “This was an order!!!” like the madman he is.