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To: Libloather

Separation of powers.


2 posted on 02/19/2026 11:45:03 PM PST by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: exnavy
Congress has the power to tax, while the President is in control of foreign relations. Separation of powers becomes problematic in that tariffs are both a tax and an aspect of foreign relations.

The best resolution is that Congress may lay out various tariff rates and regimes, with the President able to defer to Congress or adopt his own plans and measures in reliance on his power over foreign relations. In a pinch, the President wins, unless Congress exercises its singular and peremptory power over the purse.

Unfortunately, since I do not have a seat on the Court, they may well come to a different and less sound resolution.

3 posted on 02/20/2026 12:21:21 AM PST by Rockingham
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Separation of Ppwers would be an issue if congress had literally not created a bill that gave those powers to the president. The correct ruling would be congress can legislate a new bill revoking those powers, it is not justiciable.

That would be the legal ruling and if the court is not corrupted completely what would happen. I see this as a litmus test, if the court rules against Trump we know the shadow powers own it because this will be a full-on directive of the globalist to rule against Trump.


5 posted on 02/20/2026 1:59:03 AM PST by Skwor
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