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In a 2-1 decision, a panel of judges on the Court of International Trade concluded that the Trump administration misread the law used to justify the sweeping tariffs.
Spazito
(56,077 posts)to replace what is currently being thrown in the White House.
House of Roberts
(6,635 posts)Cease fire's over, and it's all Iran's fault for not having the cards he wanted, or something like that.
Spazito
(56,077 posts)in the courts and in the field of combat. He is the BIGGEST loser in the world right now.
malaise
(297,960 posts)Trump also issues new deadline for EU to implement trade deal terms before raising tariffs to much higher levels
orthoclad
(4,818 posts)It's a back-door tax.
Place tariffs
Collect money paid by the people for expensive products
Somebody sues.
The Trumpian Court says oopsie.
Taxpayers pay corporations.
The people get caught holding the bag.
Meanwhile, everybody celebrates Trump's defeat.
Corporations sneak off to the bank.
This is PERFECT rodeo clown kayfabe.
erronis
(24,538 posts)I don't remember anything in the Constitution, Bill of Rights - even in the papers and letters of the founding fathers that gave these things called "corporations" rights that transcend any citizen's (well, except for those annointed by the corporatists in the government.
orthoclad
(4,818 posts)I don't know when that started. Maybe in the first robber baron era. But capitalism is economic feudalism, nothing democratic about it.
Capitalism, which is based on stolen labor, and slavery are fraternal twins, born together to exploit the resources of the "new" world. 1500s?
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,066 posts)The U.S. Court of International Trade dealt a blow to the 10 percent global import tax that President Donald Trump imposed after losing on tariffs at the Supreme Court.
Trade court rules against Trumpâs global tariff
— Brooklynwatch (@brooklynwatch.bsky.social) 2026-05-07T22:13:50.375Z
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/07/tariffs-trade-court-ruling-trump
Thursdays ruling by a two-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade held that the presidents order imposing a 10 percent global tariff under Section 122 of a 1974 trade law was invalid. Trump cited the nations trade deficit as justification for his latest tariffs. But under the law the president cited, the United States must be suffering large and serious balance-of-payments deficits, which the court said was not the case.
The court granted a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, Burlap & Barrel, a New York-based online spice retailer, and Basic Fun!, a toy company in Florida, as well as Washington state.
The Section 122 tariffs were scheduled to expire in late July. The Trump administration has said it planned to replace them with permanent import taxes using different legal authorities.
This was not a close decision. These tariffs only apply with there is a balance payment deficit which can not happen since the US went off the gold standard
Escurumbele
(4,112 posts)they were doing, the goal has always been to break the USA, these people have an agenda that doesn't include USA citizens, this is treason all the way.
The new media and the judges, need to stop giving these people the benefit of the doubt, everything they do is intentional, there is a purpose on everything they do, and that is to break their own country.
People tend to think these thugs are incompetent, and that is part of the problem, they continue to think so while the thugs continue to destroy, to break the system, the people and the institutions, they are not incompetent, not at all, they are just evil.
orthoclad
(4,818 posts)while the billionaires manipulate in the background.
From the Congressional Budget Office document Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2022. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60807
(Damn, I can't get the image of the graph to display. Something has changed; I've posted it half a dozen times before. It's at the top of the document.)
canetoad
(21,029 posts)Or ignored the law?
Good morning.
malaise
(297,960 posts)The law.
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Dr. T
(715 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,668 posts)Permanut
(8,572 posts)surfered
(14,294 posts)orthoclad
(4,818 posts)Klarkashton
(5,421 posts)To impose those tariffs.
SergeStorms
(20,813 posts)He does whatever pleases himself and dares anyone to stop him. The highest court in the land is controlled by Trump lackies so he doesn't give two shits what anyone says.
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