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The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that has been central to the president’s foreign policy and economic agenda.

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 84 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Too little too late supreme court. There's no one left to enforce the decision.

[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 50 points 11 hours ago

This was planned. Blitzkrieg policies are working as intended.

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[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 42 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I mean, as much of a fucking mess this is going to cause, and as much as they should have said this a year ago, this is still very good news as far as I am concerned. Bare minimum, all the tarriffs currently in place by Trump are canceled going forward and it's going to be a while before anything analogous can be put back into place.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's not all the tariffs, just the ones he justified using the 1977 Emergency Act. So of course, now he'll use another justification, and it'll take SC(R)OTUS another year to rule on those.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

That's all of them, isn't it? For all other tariffs he would have had to use the legislative branch, which he didn't.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

If this was the fastest they could rule an executive action unconstitutional, it's proof they need to adjust the process so they can do it faster.

Not that I think this Supreme Court is acting in good faith.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Incorrect.

Only a subset of tariffs were ruled illegal. Mostly because of the method they were declared with.

Others are, as of now, perfectly legal and will remain in place. And expect many of these to just be declared in a different manner to maintain them.

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[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Whoa.

Well, I bet my pants that Justice Clarence Thomas is a dissenting opinion. Does it say in the article?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 60 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

There's only one way to find out: ask people what's in the article.

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch joined with Roberts and the three liberal justices in the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I just wanted to guess before I read it.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Can something so certain legitimately be called a guess anymore?

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"Supreme Court justices should be [terrible thing, deadly, obviously bad outcome for them]"

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

It's always the ones you most suspect. You could probably be closely aligned with the constitution without knowing a single thing about the law by just always taking the opposite position from whatever Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh take.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I can't remember what it was about, but I think Kavanaugh was actually on the correct side of a non-unanimous ruling maybe once.

Literally zero times for the other two, of course.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

A few of them made an effort to keep up appearances during early rulings, but then they realized that democracy was falling so they went whole-hog with empowering fascism, and now we're approaching what looks like a brutal mid-term sweep so the judges are backing off again from overt capitulation... we sure wouldn't want the new house and senate to introduce bills to reform Supreme Court, right?

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I still think Barrett, a person who had almost no courtroom experience before being appointed, was a shitty appointment. But she's turned out slightly less shitty than I anticipated.

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[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago

Ooh boy, refunds! Yay!

We should make sure to refund all the corporations and businesses - by court order! If we do that, surely it will trickle down this time.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Did Howard Lutnick just make millions?

[–] Blueliner@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I can't wait for prices to go back down.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 16 points 11 hours ago
[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Bless your heart.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

So is this an impeachable offense? Im pretty sure if i broke federal law, i would be hunted down and thrown in jail.

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