Trump has lost the tariff battle but not the tariff war
New York Post ^ | Feb. 20, 2026 | Ilya Shapiro
Posted on 2/20/2026, 1:27:06 PM by MinorityRepublican
The Supreme Court’s tariff decision landed about where conventional wisdom said it would: The justices ruled 6–3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act simply doesn’t give the president the sweeping authority the Trump administration claimed. That’s not a political rebuke. It’s a legal one, and a narrow one at that.
Chief Justice John Roberts put the bottom line plainly: “We hold that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs.” That’s it. Not that tariffs are unconstitutional. Not that Trump’s trade agenda is illegitimate. Just that this particular statute doesn’t do the work the administration wanted it to do.
The core of the majority’s reasoning is straightforward and, frankly, hard to argue with. Article I gives Congress the power to tax, and tariffs are taxes. As Roberts explained, “The power to impose tariffs is ‘very clear[ly] . . . a branch of the taxing power.’” The administration conceded the president has no inherent authority to impose tariffs. So everything turned on whether Congress clearly delegated that power in IEEPA. (Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
President Trump is way ahead of his enemies on the tariff issue
He intentionally ran wild with IEEPA tariffs knowing full well that the Supreme Court would likely overturn them
He caused the opposition to burn up a year and big bucks fighting him and he may , plus he may have collected some useful info on the opposition in the process. We shall see where this leads
If you keep referencing the actual decision of the Supreme Court you may end up disqualifying yourself from taking part in these threads. Careful.