Link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/supreme-court-tariffs

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that has been central to the president’s foreign policy and economic agenda.

Too little too late supreme court. There's no one left to enforce the decision.

So they are going to pay it back right?……….Right?

The cheque is in the mail.

There are already lawsuits filed for refunds of tariff payments. Of course the money will go to the companies that made the payments. All of us who actually paid them by paying more for basically every consumer good are out of luck.

Yeah of course, now the big importing companies get billions of dollars... oh you meant to the consumer, tough luck.

Yeah, it is kind of like seeing you car that was stolen on the news being returned to the person who resold it from the person who stole your car.

Wealth transfer from labor to the ownership class.

Fuck off Supreme Court. I have it on good authority that The President is immune to any legal action for any presidential acts.

And people are delusional if they think these prices will go back down.

Whoa.

Well, I bet my pants that Justice Clarence Thomas is a dissenting opinion. Does it say in the article?

Yep.

I mean, as much of a fucking mess this is going to cause, and as much as they should have said this a year ago, this is still very good news as far as I am concerned. Bare minimum, all the tarriffs currently in place by Trump are canceled going forward and it's going to be a while before anything analogous can be put back into place.

A trump never pays his debts

There's only one way to find out: ask people what's in the article.

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch joined with Roberts and the three liberal justices in the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.

Thomas, Alito, and Kavanagh were the dissenters.

I just wanted to guess before I read it.

It’s a good thing first and foremost because tariffs have been Trump’s #1 tool to bully other nations into bending to his will.

This was planned. Blitzkrieg policies are working as intended.

Can something so certain legitimately be called a guess anymore?

It’s always a win win for the wealthy

Good.

I'm sick of this indirect taxation bullshit.

oh neat. so that means this ruling will be enforced right? ....right?

of course it won't. it's another dog and pony show from the US.

Lol.

Important to note that the ruling just says Trump exceeded his authority in setting the tariffs, not that the tariffs themselves were illegal/unconstitutional. That means that Congress can authorize Trump to continue doing this. The question is whether Mike Johnson and John Thune have the numbers to pass that law. They already both quashed efforts to curb Trump's authority before.

"Supreme Court justices should be [terrible thing, deadly, obviously bad outcome for them]"

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.

He's immune to punishment for them. If anyone charges a tariff to a company/person buying a foreign product that wasn't imposed by congress though, they can still be held liable.

And Trump filling out pardons for everyone to ignore the supreme Court I doubt can be considered an official act, not sure what that would fall under. Government overthrow again, lol

So is this an impeachable offense? Im pretty sure if i broke federal law, i would be hunted down and thrown in jail.

Hah! It gets better than that.

We are going to have to pay again in taxes to make up for the new shortfall.

It's always the ones you most suspect. You could probably be closely aligned with the constitution without knowing a single thing about the law by just always taking the opposite position from whatever Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh take.

I still think Barrett, a person who had almost no courtroom experience before being appointed, was a shitty appointment. But she's turned out slightly less shitty than I anticipated.

I can't remember what it was about, but I think Kavanaugh was actually on the correct side of a non-unanimous ruling maybe once.

Literally zero times for the other two, of course.

Incorrect.

Only a subset of tariffs were ruled illegal. Mostly because of the method they were declared with.

Others are, as of now, perfectly legal and will remain in place. And expect many of these to just be declared in a different manner to maintain them.

Okay, trump is going to be pissed about this, so why did they do it? Do they think he's going to die or are there different handlers in play here that are losing money?

It's not all the tariffs, just the ones he justified using the 1977 Emergency Act. So of course, now he'll use another justification, and it'll take SC(R)OTUS another year to rule on those.

So are they going to pack the far-left, woke, DEI court now?

I must admit I've been surprised by how independent of Trump Amy Coney Barrett has wound up being. She's ruled against him a few times now.

They see the tide turning. And Trump will be dead by summer. Time to start positioning JD as the good guy … then they’ll start their bullshit up again…

I suspect you're right on the money, since their handlers are probably trump's handlers too.

Sounds like the system is working as intended.

Companies that made the payments already sold their rights to this refunds to investment funds for cents on the dollar. Now the funds will make shitload of money. And guess who invested in all of it? Yes, people connected to Trump!

https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/

They straight out robbed everyone.

I'm not too worried about additional tariffs passing through congress, though. That would have been the safer approach to try from the beginning if Trump's people thought they could make it work. They opted for this workaround loophole nonsense specifically to go around congress because they had already ruled out the possibility of congressional approval.

I just don't think Trump could ever manage to get enough support from congress. Certainly not with how unpopular the tariffs currently are, and certainly not right before the midterms.

If this was the fastest they could rule an executive action unconstitutional, it's proof they need to adjust the process so they can do it faster.

Not that I think this Supreme Court is acting in good faith.

Like, who knows, in a motor coach kissing a concrete pillar on the way back from Martha’s Vineyard when OnStar goes out during a Cloudflare outage?

Recusing herself that one time was a low bar to clear, but she managed to huff and puff her way over.

Lmfao of course they had something like this set up

It's especially unsurprising that OAN (my bellwether for batshit crazy conservative stuff) aren't even reporting on this.

These people live in an entirely different universe of ignorance.

I'm wondering if contributing factor could be that he is giving himself 10 billion of taxpayer's money? He is straight stealing from us, literally to his own bank account in Qatar.

He would have to ask Congress if it weren't for the tariffs.

Any idea which specific tariffs supposed to go away and which will stay?

When she looks relatively sane and moderate it just demonstrates how crazy and extreme the fascists in charge are.