If you're one of those guys saying "The Supreme Court just did Republicans a big favor!" you are obligated to explain (a) the world in which Trump just says "oh well" and doesn't try to do tariffs some other way; and (b) the world in which Republicans oppose him in those (or any) efforts.
If someone had told me ten years ago that in 2026, there could be evidence of the president raping and threatening to kill children, and he would *still* be allowed to stay in office, I would have politely asked them to put down the meth pipe.
There is no exception to the major questions doctrine for emergency statutes. Nor does the fact that tariffs implicate foreign affairs render the doctrine inapplicable. The Framers gave “Congress alone” the power to impose tariffs during peacetime. Merritt v. Welsh, 104 U. S. 694, 700. And the foreign affairs implications of tariffs do not make it any more likely that Congress would relinquish its tariff power through vague language, or without careful limits.
(a) IEEPA authorizes the President to “investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit . . . importation or exportation.” §1702(a)(1)(B). Absent from this lengthy list of specific powers is any mention of tariffs or duties. Had Congress intended to convey the distinct and extraordinary power to impose tariffs, it would have done so expressly, as it consistently has in other tariff statutes. The power to “regulate . . . importation” does not fill that void. The term “regulate,” as ordinarily used, means to “fix, establish, or control; to adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.” Black’s Law Dictionary 1156. The facial breadth of this definition places in stark relief what ”regulate” is not usually thought to include: taxation. Many statutes grant the Executive the power to “regulate.” Yet the Government cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the power to tax. The Court is therefore skeptical that in IEEPA—and IEEPA alone—Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax within the quotidian power to “regulate.” While taxes may accomplish regulatory ends, it does not follow that the power to regulate includes the power to tax as a means of regulation. Indeed, when Congress addresses both the power to regulate and the power to tax, it does so separately and expressly. That it did not do so here is strong evidence that “regulate” in IEEPA does not include taxation.
Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA.
Just complete groin kicking.
They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one.
It didn't.
It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.
🚨🚨 Trump MURDERED an ICU nurse THEN called him a terrorist!
Alex Pretti saved lives for a living!!
Trump repaid this American citizen by pumping 10 BULLETS into him and is now lying about it
Anyone who supports this brutal lynching should be considered an accomplice and dealt with accordingly 🚨🚨
Same block. Gluten free heaven apparently
@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social I tried buddy.
My operating assumption is that he tried to do a hasty coup in 2020 that failed, and so everything he does in his second term should be understood as laying the groundwork for a second coup to succeed.
Deep cut
If the regime was even half savvy and/or cared about democracy in any way they'd serve up the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti on a platter for prosecution. They're not, though, because everyone is absolutely fucking high on their own supply and they're fully committed to authoritarianism.
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
Same Buddy. They can't get us all.
I hope this lying fuckhead rots in prison one day. And I view that as a worst-case scenario for me. I can totally imagine better outcomes from my perspective. bsky.app/profile/atru...
I did a crisper version of this Andor remix if anyone is a completist.
Watching this coverage on the BBC and it’s wild to actually see people talking direct shit about Trump in ways you never ever see on US news. It’s like 5% as pointed as it should be but it’s more than you ever see at home.
What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
Was worth it.
Oh shit. Closing tab, going home.
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die. He was unable to. He still walks among us, cursed to remember in a world where everyone has forgotten. He’s out there now, just beyond the light your lantern throws,
There’s a lot of political commentary about Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning, but one important point is this: she entered Congress in 2021 with an estimated net worth of about $700,000, and is leaving in 2025 with a net worth of roughly $25 million.
Me, watching as children's motrin magically lowers Littler Girl's fever from 104.x down to 100.x, easing her very obvious discomfort and allowing her to get the sleep she desperately needs:
"I don't think this is doing anything and maybe it's dangerous. Probably better for her to burn up?"
Maria Bartiromo defends an immigration agent who was filmed brutalizing someone on camera in Evanston, saying they were "defensive strikes"
This is the Trump/Johnson Epstein Shutdown
If Johnson swears-in Adelita Girjalva, the House will
override his scheme to block a vote demanding release of ALL the Epstein files
Clearly whatever is in the Epstein files about Trump & his pals is really, really, really bad!!
NYPD Cop is sick and tired of TEMU cops AKA ICE GOONS racial profiling and harassing him.
This sounds like a direct shot at the whiny baby who has spent years demanding the Nobel Peace Prize just because Obama got one: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...
Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"
Ortiz was absolutely loving this sitting between AROD and Jeter
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
