"Same Old; Same Old..." Now 25 States Have Sued Tangerine 2.0, Alleging His "New" Tariffs Are A Mere Pre-Text For The Old Ones (Invalidated). Smile.

Y A W N. These states clearly have the better of the argument.

We will mention it from time to time -- as Trump loses at each level -- but we won't spend an undue amount of attention on a guy who cannot get the actual law through his thick skull. [Or through Eastman's and Navarro's.] Here's a bit, this morning:

. . .Trump, who argues that high tariffs will revive American manufacturing, last year overturned decades of U.S. policy that favored lower tariffs and ever-freer trade. Invoking the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, he imposed double-digit tariffs on imports from almost every country, saying America’s longstanding trade deficit amounted to a national emergency.

But the Supreme Court ruled that IEEPA did not authorize tariffs. The decision forced the administration to send refunds to importers who’d paid the tariffs. Eager to make up the lost revenue, Trump turned to temporary 10% worldwide tariffs. But they expired at midnight July 24. . . .

During Trump ’s first term, he cited Section 301 to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, which survived legal challenges. . . .

“Presidents have used it for decades, and Congress built it with real guardrails: investigation, consultation, a public record,” Appleton said. “The government’s defense won’t be ‘I had no power to do this.’ It will be, ‘I stayed inside the lines Congress drew.’ That is a real fight, not a formality, and it is the one that will decide this case. . . .”

Now you know -- what a clown show. Onward, resolutely, just the same.

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