President challenging federal appeals court decision that ‘liberation day’ levies on imports overstepped his powers
Donald Trump has asked the US supreme court to overturn a lower court decision that most of his sweeping trade tariffs were illegal.
The US president filed a petition late on Wednesday to ask for a review of last week’s federal appeals court ruling in Washington DC, which centred on his “liberation day” border taxes introduced on 2 April that imposed levies of between 10% and 50% on most US imports and sent shock waves through global trade and markets.
The court found in a 7-4 ruling last Friday that Trump overstepped his presidential powers when he invoked a 1977 law designed to address national emergencies to justify his “reciprocal” tariffs.
Yeah, his so-called “emergencies” are made-up nonsense. But with this SCOTUS being so corrupted by having too many conservatives, who knows how they will rule?
Tariffs are a tax, taxes are only authorized by Congress, it’s blantantly spelled out in the constitution… The term originalist to describe the sleeper cell fascists on the court was always a fat ass lie.
What’s that I hear? The sound of barking and rolling over?
