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Posted on 10/10/2025 11:15:32 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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Experts.
Hillary had a 96% chance of winning in 2016.
Why bother with elections when all this time we could have saved the trouble and just appointed judges to run everything?
Lol, who exactly is charge of trade?
Lol, who exactly is charge of trade?
If the Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s Tariffs it will deal a huge major hole in Trump’s Economic agenda.
But I absolutely agree that the tariffs - specifically the ones implemented pursuant to the IEEPA - will be struck down as not authorized under that law. Because the Constitution assigns to Congress specifically the power to implement taxes, duties and tariffs, they can't be delegated to the President unless the delegation is clear. And in this case, none of those things are even mentioned in the IEEPA, so there isn't a clear delegation of Congress' authority to implement tariffs.
He'll lose, as he should. And that isn't a judgment as to whether the tariffs themselves are good policy. It's just a judgment that the President lacks the authority to impose them unilaterally under the IEEPA.
> If the Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s Tariffs it will deal a huge major hole in Trump’s Economic agenda. <
Right. Trump doesn’t worry a whole lot about the federal deficit. But the tariffs are doing more than just protecting American manufacturers.They are also helping with the deficit.
It would be really bad for the country if they are struck down.
The Constitution says it is Congress.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
Why bother electing a Congress if a President can exercise Congressional authority unilaterally, and without a clear delegation of that authority by Congress?
I completely support Trump's firing of various government commission personnel because Congress doesn't have the constitutional authority to limit Trump's authority as Chief executive.
But while I don't support Congress taking power that rightly belongs to the President, I also don't support the President taking power that rightly belongs to Congress.
Yes it is, and the “Congress” spoke and passed the Emergency Powers Act in 1977 which gives broad autjhority to the President/Executive branch
And it also says:
"The Congress shall have Power to...regulate commerce with foreign nations."
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.
That statue does not mention tariffs, taxes, or duties of any kind. That is a power specifically delegated to Congress, and absent a specific delegation of that power, I believe the Supreme Court is very unlikely to hold that that power was actually delegated to the President in IEEPA.
Nope.
435 trade negotiators?
I think congress has seriously let us down in a number of ways.
They are supposed to be the branch that declares whether we are at war - but wars are waged that congress neither declared or prohibited.
They are supposed to be the branch that determines spending - but budgets are never passed and out-of-control spending happens regardless of congress.
Similarly, the states and city governments are supposed to enforce law and order, but the big cities are crime-infested hell holes.
I love the separation of powers doctrine which is at the heart of the Constitution, but when faced with abject failure of a function of givernmebt to fulfill its role - you need a Trump to step in and apply common sense - it’s what We The People demand right now.
I sincerely hope that once law and order is restored that we can do a reset and go back to a peace-time limited power solution intended by the Founders.
But this is war - and the Founders of all people knew that there is a time to limit power and there is a time to wield it.
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