Posted on 09/04/2025 12:02:53 PM PDT by LibertyFound
After five brutal months of unrestricted lawfare against the Trump Administration, it looks like the Supreme Court will finally weigh-in on tariffs.
On August 29, 2025, a Federal Circuit Court of Appeal decided that President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs were illegal.
Specifically, the Court ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the President to impose tariffs of unlimited duration, on all goods from all countries. This is because tariffs are not mentioned in the Statute, and even if they were, the tariffs are not credibly related to a national emergency.
The Trump Administration is appealing. Solicitor General D. John Sauer states unequivocally that striking the tariffs “would expose our nation to trade retaliation without effective defences” and “thrust America back to the brink of economic catastrophe.”
President Trump himself hammered this point home on Truth Social, stating that without tariffs “our Country would be completely destroyed, and our military power would be instantly obliterated”.
President Trump is right.
Not has America’s economy been completely hollowed-out due to unrestricted “free" trade with adversaries like China, but America’s national security is jeopardized by reliance on foreign supply chains—this is a national emergency, and tariffs are the solution.
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So every President before Trump had the legal authority to impose tariffs but, orange man can’t....
Got it
You finally caught on.
It’s a legislative power.
The Trade Act of 1974 gives potus tariff authority.
So you say.
No branch can constitutionally give away its powers to another branch.
Regulator and trade authority is delegated all the time.
That’s how progressives govern; it’s not how constitutionalists govern.
I’m slow.
Ask any Democrat...
Actually, Trump and MAGA Republicans game planned in advance to an end around the 1974 provision, which did actually give him enough latitude in Trade so Lindsay Graham got the Big Beautiful Bill to include POTUS National Security provisions allowing the president emergency authority thus bypassing congress due to the threats cited and slowness of legislative action.
The BBB is the now Trump’s controlling authority, if it holds up with SCOTUS.
-PJ
Better defense: Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 empowers the President of the United States to impose new or additional duties—up to 50% ad valorem—on imports from countries that are found to discriminate against U.S. commerce, either by imposing unreasonable charges, regulations, or by favoring other nations over the United States in trade practices.
Trump is appealing court-denial of tariffs.
Trump’s Solicitor General D. John Sauer states unequivocally that
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President Trump himself hammered this point home on Truth Social, stating that without tariffs
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What is interesting to me about the Trump imposed tariffs is the fact that while there is a law suit challenge in the courts, the Congress does not seem overly in distress.
The tariffs are a real tax increase accomplished by the President that can provide funds to eliminate the deficit and maybe reduce the debt.
The congress lacks the will to do any of that.
Opposing our tariffs is a lot like opposing our military.
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