Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court

Friday, September 05, 2025

The legal arguments for Trump's tariffs are weak, so he's arguing their rejection would bring ruin.

Posted by Corky at 10:11 PM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

Donald Trump is making a last-ditch effort to salvage his beloved, beleaguered tariff policy, heading to the Supreme Court in hopes that the Republican appointees will come to his rescue.

The desperation is both palpable and warranted given the conspicuous weakness of the administration's legal arguments, as underscored by a series of lower court rulings against him.

That has in turn led the president and his aides to make increasingly histrionic public claims about what will happen if the Supreme Court does not cave and side with Trump.

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"Call it The Chicken Little Defense: If the courts do not sign off on the administration's tariffs, it "would be a total disaster for the Country" and "would literally destroy the United States of America," Trump said on Friday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the bulk of the president's tariffs are illegal.

He doubled down on those claims on Tuesday while tacking on the transparently ridiculous assertion that the U.S. is "taking in $17 trillion ... because of tariffs."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-05 10:13 PM | Reply

Thomas and Scalito are on the list

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-05 10:19 PM | Reply

"The legal arguments for Trump's tariffs are weak, so he's arguing their rejection would bring ruin."

That's the same argument Republican use to say we shouldn't release the full unredacted Epstein Files.

Telling the truth will bring ruin.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-05 11:52 PM | Reply

No matter what Constitution still says Congress is in charge of tariffs!

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-09-06 01:29 AM | Reply

Even if the Republican majority is too cowardly to remind him!

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-09-06 01:31 AM | Reply