The fate of President Trump’s agenda rested in the hands of the Supreme Court.
After months of waiting, the justices finally handed down their ruling.
And Donald Trump got this bad news from the Supreme Court that left him boiling with rage.
Swamp-aligned special interests immediately sued after President Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs.
Trump declared the tariffs were necessary to correct decades of bad trade deals where globalists ripped off Americans, carved up industries, and looted the nation’s wealth.
Trump claimed the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) authorized sweeping Presidential powers to enact the tariffs after Trump declared the nation’s trade deficit was a national security threat.
The tariffs succeeded in forcing countries like Japan and India to negotiate new, fair trade deals.
And the tariffs also succeeded in cutting the deficit.
Tariffs helped slash the deficit by 17 percent in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 from the first quarter of fiscal year 2025.
None of this mattered to three so-called “Republican” justices – John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch – who joined the three leftist judges to strike down the tariffs.
Roberts claimed Congress possessed the sole power to levy taxes even though the IEEPA never explicitly restricted the President’s power to impose tariffs.
“What common sense suggests, congressional practice confirms. When Congress has delegated its tariff powers, it has done so in explicit terms and subject to strict limits,” Roberts wrote in his majority opinion.
President Trump used tariffs in foreign affairs to settle conflicts, like a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
The Supreme Court lawlessly put itself in charge of micromanaging how the President negotiates with other countries.
“And whatever may be said of other powers that implicate foreign affairs, we would not expect Congress to relinquish its tariff power through vague language, or without careful limits,” Roberts added.
Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch seemed to realize his opinion would sit poorly with the President and his supporters.
Gorsuch tried to claim they should take solace in the legislative process.
“Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises. But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design,” Gorsuch stated.
Elena Kagan – who upheld the Obamacare individual mandate as a tax even though the legislation specifically called it a penalty – suddenly became a textualist.
“Most important, IEEPA’s key phrase — the one the Government relies on — says nothing about imposing tariffs or taxes,” Kagan claimed.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh understood the mess the court created because now companies will demand refunds of the $178 billion collected in tariff revenue, and this decision didn’t touch on that issue at all.
“The Court says nothing today about whether, and if so how, the Government should go about returning the billions of dollars that it has collected from importers. But that process is likely to be a ‘mess,’ as was acknowledged at oral argument,” Kavanaugh declared
Kavanaugh also shredded the majority opinion by noting IEEPA allows the President to regulate imports, and tariffs would fall under any reasonable understanding of that language.
“Statutory text, history, and precedent demonstrate that the answer is clearly yes: Like quotas and embargoes, tariffs are a traditional and common tool to regulate importation,” Kavanaugh argued.
Conservatives have long been frustrated that Republicans appoint Supreme Court Justices only to watch them grow into liberals the longer they sit on the bench.
This case will only deepen conservatives’ suspicions that the court isn’t an institution the right can count on.
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