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The Tariff Power Properly Belongs with Congress
National Review ^ | May 29, 2025 | NR Editors

Posted on 05/29/2025 1:20:02 PM PDT by karpov

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1 posted on 05/29/2025 1:20:02 PM PDT by karpov
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This doesnt age well. The appellate court just overturned the weasal circuit court


2 posted on 05/29/2025 1:21:21 PM PDT by neverbluffer
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aren’t these the same jagoffs that wrote a huge editorial bashing Trump in 2016? How can they even show their faces now?


3 posted on 05/29/2025 1:23:28 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: neverbluffer

I was watching Laura Ingraham last night when this story broke. Her guest was Senator Kennedy from Louisiana. He said the President has the power to deal with tariffs because Congress gave it to him.


4 posted on 05/29/2025 1:23:52 PM PDT by shelterguy
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all they care about is their precious globalism / ‘free’ trade and the almighty dollar. Sick mofos.


5 posted on 05/29/2025 1:24:11 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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NR were also big advocates for the needless, incredibly destructive War in Iraq. Their editors should be tasked to tour the deserts to find the nonexistent WMDs.


6 posted on 05/29/2025 1:25:57 PM PDT by laconic
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When is the last time the NR editors were right about anything?


7 posted on 05/29/2025 1:26:23 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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In principle I probably agree. In reality Congress are a bunch of punk *$$ 8******$ that abdicated everything important to the executive, and where oversight means either asking lame questions on the house floor or attacking federal agents outside of jails. Asking them to be in charge of tariffs just gives them more people to shake down for fundraising and jobs for their family members


8 posted on 05/29/2025 1:26:29 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: neverbluffer

No, it was a temporary stay.


9 posted on 05/29/2025 1:27:08 PM PDT by karpov
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The National Review editors properly belong face down in a washtub full of sewage.


10 posted on 05/29/2025 1:28:29 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: monkeyshine

“Congress can’t be trusted, so let the President act” is how the left justified Biden and Obama taking unilateral action to reduce hydrocarbon usage to avert global warming. Conservatives rightly decried that logic, and they should not use it to support Trump unilaterally imposing tariffs, which are taxes.


11 posted on 05/29/2025 1:30:22 PM PDT by karpov
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To: monkeyshine
In principle I probably agree.

Me too. Constitutionally, Congress has the power to do tariffs. And Congress gave some of that power to the President. Until Congress rescinds that power from the President, Trump has the authority to do what he's doing.

As I put it in https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4319730/posts?page=23#23:

Here's what I see in the Trade Act of 1974:

Actions may be taken that are within the power of the President with respect to trade in any goods or services, or with respect to any other area of pertinent relations with the foreign country.
(c) SCOPE OF AUTHORITY.—
(1) For purposes of carrying out the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) or section 306(c), the Trade Representative is authorized to—
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(B) impose duties or other import restrictions on the goods of, and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, fees or restrictions on the services of, such foreign country for such time as the Trade Representative determines appropriate;

12 posted on 05/29/2025 1:31:50 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Yeah sure, congress couldn’t even decide which direction to wipe their collective butts...or even agree on where to buy the TP.


13 posted on 05/29/2025 1:38:20 PM PDT by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: neverbluffer

They were not overturned. The decision was stayed for now.


14 posted on 05/29/2025 1:41:02 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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Oh stuff it you child molesting losers.

L


15 posted on 05/29/2025 1:41:33 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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NR despises Trump. Nothing they say has any credibility


16 posted on 05/29/2025 1:43:02 PM PDT by iamgalt
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I am so old I remember when the NR was conservative.

I also remember when it jumped the shark, putting Myth Romney on the cover and pushing that loser.


17 posted on 05/29/2025 1:44:13 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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We have been frequent critics of Donald Trump’s tariffs, but we understand that there is a case to be made for reconsidering some of our trade policies. The place to make that case is Congress — not by unilateral presidential declaration of open-ended worldwide “emergencies.”

Congress is non-functional. It is a cesspool of bribed officials who do what is best for the people paying them and not what is best for America.

The system has been compromised to the point of non functionality. Anyone suggesting we rely on "congress" is actually saying the problem is unsolvable.

18 posted on 05/29/2025 1:47:01 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (`)
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"National Review". Yadda yadda yadda. Talk to the hand.

19 posted on 05/29/2025 1:48:55 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: imabadboy99

GLOBALIST Review


20 posted on 05/29/2025 1:51:32 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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