The 1970's IEEPA emergency powers law does not give any president unlimited power to impose broad tariffs. Trump's were extreme. It simply is against the law. Plain and simple. IEEPA is for specific national emergencies, not for general trade policy.

Tariffs are taxes. Period. The power to impose taxes lies with the legislative branch. Trump's expansive and way overly broad executive orders were ruled to be well beyond the scope of the IEEPA law.

He had no right to do what he did.

There were no tariffs, so it's hard to claim imposing "reciprocal tariffs" means anything. The chart Trump showed the world that was an utter and complete lie and had the words "Reciprocal Tariffs" was nonsense. A trade deficit is not a tariff. We have trade deficits with Madagascar because they produce vanilla. We can't do that here. Bananas? Same thing. It goes on and on.

His chart was bullshht and immediately fell apart with even a cursory look. That chart was his basis for declaring those "reciprocal tarifffs"

But you're right, if the corrupt Supreme Court Six decide to take this (big mistake, IMHO) then it will mean the end of this nation. There's no coming back from that point.

That's just more stupid on your part. Something I expect every time I see one of your posts. Do you even bother to determine what poison you swallow and then throw up on here? An OPINION piece by that ridiculous fraud Navarro? SERIOUSLY?

What Powell said is inflation may be a step function, based on the tariff rates, and that inflation itself, once the bump in prices stabilizes, may then be what we're seeing today. So we may have some huge hits on prices, and the inflation rate because of that may go up quite a bit, but the "new" price will not continue to go up. So we'll all eat a massive devaluation of our dollars and then live with everything costing us more, but hey - look on the bright side: The inflation rate after all that might not be too bad (if we manage monetary policy wisely)...

Trump may have just had his ass saved on this, though, since a federal appeals court struck down most of his tariffs. He may just teflon his way out his own self-imposed destruction. Again.

I wish more prominent Dems would join in.

Me, too! The more the better. The more the better. Make his antics a total joke. Turn it into the "jumped the shark" moment and let him wallow in embarrassment and anger. An emperor with no clothes, finally seen for what he is.

This is the weapon to make it happen.

This is getting interesting. Since we've collected all these taxes on US businesses and US citizens, billions in fact. There may be some very happy people that are due some $$$ back from the C-in-C (Criminal in Chief) assuming the Sharia Supreme Traitors don't throw away the laws, stare decisis, and precedent of the past 249 years.

#11 - You NAILED it.

They didn't try to kill cops, now I know you're full of angst.

You are one lying, stupid MF'r. Yes, they most certainly did. Anyone that has seen the video of that day damn well knows that. Trump even put one of those shhtheaps that yelled for cops to be killed, in his Administration. Specifically senior adviser for the Department of Justice of all things! Jared Wise if you need that reprobate's name to look him up.

On the topic of this thread, good for Newsom and for the people of California. This is the RIGHT way to do it, not the way Trump and his band of wanna be gestapo are trying to do it. Fcck Trump, fcck ICE, and Fcck Noem and everyone else allowing fascism to destroy the United States.

#8 - Trump is literally burning America down.

Newsom's shown he's a master of showing us these morons idiocy, while they remain utterly clueless. God it hurts so good to watch their MASSIVE HYPOCRISY go completely undetected by them.

They shut down this operation for 3 hours. A fire that's only 13% contained. G-d damn these pieces of shtt!

Yep.

Weak men can't survive without Daddy.

He rest obviously want to see the black on black crime come back to DC.

If that was obvious he'd have upped the presence in areas that are predominantly black, right?

I do love that old disproven -------- canard of black-on-black crime being something right-wing white folk care about. Not to mention white-on-white crime is nearly the same rate...

I'm disgusted that it's that high.

That tracks with the numbers I posted YEARS ago on how many US Americans either strongly desire or would like a fascist government. It came in right at 40%.