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If the courts are going to decide everything what's the point of the people deciding what THEY want?
I dunno, but the courts have been tempering presidential and congressional indicatives since the beginning of the Republic.
I’m not defending this decision, but the Founding Fathers explicitly designed the system so that appointed judges could hold the other two branches to Constitutional limitations.
1. Did you ever vote for (or against) a tariff?
2. Did Congress (our elected representatives) ever vote for the tariffs that are under dispute before the Supreme Court?
What's the point of electing a Congress if the President can do whatever he wants? If SCOTUS rules against the President on this case, that will be reason.
If Congress can delegate total power to the President, the checks and balances built into the Constitution are destroyed because legislation will no longer have to go through Congress. The scope of what Trump claims he can do with tariffs amounts to a complete delegation of that power.
If Trump wants to fundamentally change the tariff posture of the country, he should go to Congress and request the implementation of those tariffs via legislation. And if Congress won't do that, well, that's the way our system works.
The court “decides” whether or not the action followed the law.
If the executive is not following the law, then thats it.
If you don’t like the law, you don’t get angry at the court. You get angry at Congress.
And…the Congress (Senate side) decides who becomes Federal judges.
YOU decide who is in Congress, every two years. If you don’t like the laws of the people they approve of…do something about it next November.