Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court

Sunday, September 07, 2025

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

Posted by Corky at 08:32 AM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

On Friday, challengers to President Donald Trump's tariffs filed a brief before the Supreme Court. They disagreed with the Trump administration that it has the legal authority to impose the tariffs, but agreed with it that the court should hear the case.

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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

Bought, paid for, and widely despised.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-06 07:04 AM | Reply

"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."

Thank you Corky! I heard him make that ridiculous claim but, so far, when I bring it up people don't understand how obviously ridiculous it is! I wonder out loud sometimes if he really knows what "trillion" even means.

#7 | Posted by danni at 2025-09-07 09:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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

Not that the GOP/MAGAts give a fudge about facts, but that would mean tarriffs exceed half our GDP. And, of course, we are the ones paying for it, to give tax cuts to billionaires.

#8 | Posted by censored at 2025-09-07 11:34 AM | Reply

Speaking of facts ..

Donald Trump Promised to Eliminate the Deficit in 8 Years. So Far, He Has Increased it by 68%!

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-07 11:39 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump will eventually announce he will have them executed if they don't agree with him. They gave him immunity so he can do that.

#10 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-09-07 02:13 PM | Reply

Anthony Kennedy's son was Trump's moneylender at Deutsche Bank
June 29, 2018
Trump's months of praise of the senior Kennedy was all part of a campaign to assure him "that his judicial legacy would be in good hands should he step down at the end of the court's term that ended this week."
theweek.com

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-07 03:07 PM | Reply

The USSC are a bunch of rightwing political sycophants. They will do whatever Trump wants. whores.

#12 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-09-07 05:36 PM | Reply