Posted on 05/03/2025 3:28:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In less than two weeks, two extraordinary elements of the Donald Trump legal saga will collide — the battle to bring down Trump’s tariffs, and the Trump administration’s fight to prevent judges from blocking his policies across the country.
The Court of International Trade is set to hold oral argument on May 13 in one of the growing number of cases that challenge the bulk of the Trump tariff regime. The lawsuits, which are strong on the merits, argue that the tariffs are not legally authorized under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, the law that Trump has invoked.
At issue is a motion for a preliminary nationwide injunction to put a stop to the tariffs filed by the Liberty Justice Center, which is representing a New York-based alcohol importer and distributor known as V.O.S. Selections, along with four other small businesses that say the tariffs could decimate their companies.
Just one wrinkle: Two days later, the Supreme Court will consider whether to crack down on judges’ power to check the administration in precisely this way. The justices will hear oral argument in the Trump administration’s request to overturn a series of nationwide injunctions currently halting Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship.
Trump and advisers like Stephen Miller have been enraged by the ability of a single lower court judge to issue injunctions that hamstring the president’s agenda across the country. The administration has asked the Supreme Court to “prevent universal injunctions from becoming universally...”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
President Trump is taking bold action to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.
The orders make clear that the flow of contraband drugs like fentanyl to the United States, through illicit distribution networks, has created a national emergency, including a public health crisis.
Chinese officials have failed to take the actions necessary to stem the flow of precursor chemicals to known criminal cartels and shut down money laundering by transnational criminal organizations.
In addition, the Mexican drug trafficking organizations have an intolerable alliance with the government of Mexico. The government of Mexico has afforded safe havens for the cartels to engage in the manufacturing and transportation of dangerous narcotics, which collectively have led to the overdose deaths of hundreds of thousands of American victims. This alliance endangers the national security of the United States, and we must eradicate the influence of these dangerous cartels.
There is also a growing presence of Mexican cartels operating fentanyl and nitazene synthesis labs in Canada. A recent study recognized Canada’s heightened domestic production of fentanyl, and its growing footprint within international narcotics distribution.
And Roberts will write his “word salad” again.
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Don’t trust John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch.
Now you think you’re Stalin?
“Strong on the merits”, eh “politico?
Well, if YOU say so....
oooooooo, is Politico upset????????
OMG...I cannot believe just how ANGRY I AM WITH THAT IDIOTIC CHIEF JUSTICE...CHIEF OF WHAT...EXACTLY?
I really, really hate to admit it, but I was a real fan of Roberts....long, long ago.
For Pete’s sake HE IS SO OBVIOUSLY IMPAIRED.
Which one of the stories, of his unusual decisions is true.
THIS has got to be investigated.
Republican have the distinction of disappointing because they have a flaw in their personality that makes them subject to the liberals on the bench. They want to belong, they want to go to parties, they want to lecture at universities and they are perfectly willing to sell their souls to achieve that.
Yes it’s disgusting and disappointing. They get temporary acceptance but history will record them as selling out the American people.
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