The White House is exploring how to keep Trump's tariffs if the Supreme Court strikes them down
The White House is exploring how to keep Trump's tariffs if the Supreme Court strikes them down
He has a sycophantic majority in both houses. Why TF does he not just get legislation passed granting him broad powers?
I can only assume because some R's would not vote for it...?
My guess is that he wants to bypass congress partly to set a norm of bypassing congress because he’d prefer not to have to deal with them as he flails about.
Can't let them start thinking they have power.
Filibuster, which they are loathe to let go of since it lets them obstruct even when they lose all three branches.
It is likely that SCOTUS will make something up to let his tariffs stand, so no rush in dropping what remains of the filibuster.
Why TF does he not just get legislation passed granting him broad powers?
Because nobody actually wants to be seen touching a tax hike. If Trump can own it, every congressman can go back home and say "I don't like the tariffs, but there's nothing I can do?!"
Not even that they couldn't be strong armed into voting for it. But that they can pretend to oppose tariffs in words while doing nothing of substance in deeds.
When they say there's nothing they can do, they're hoping you accept this lie and not push back that it's a lie. Make sure they own the tariffs as much as they own the Donvict. They are his enablers.
Remember how easy it was to strike down Biden’s college loan reimbursements? That would’ve given many people the leg up they needed to create a better life, to get out from the sham, overpriced, and, usually, useless college degrees we were told we needed.
But tariffs, something that raises the costs to consumers for nearly all things (including drugs at a time when brain dead states are removing mandates), is what they’re going to fight hard to keep. That’s some wild shit right there.
I guess "getting them passed by a republican controlled congress" is off the table.
I don't know Donny, maybe try getting them written into law like a normal President would try to do.
The whole emergency powers thing has got to get cut off. The ability for ANY President to declare an emergency and then just take away very clearly delegated to Congress powers has to end. It was dumb when these things were invented during the Cold War, they still remain dumb to this day.
Whitehouse trying to figure out how to subvert the constitution again!? That is like the twelfth time this month and we just got started.
Whitehouse trying to figure out how to subvert the constitution again!?
There's no figuring out to do. They just do it, and by the time the courts get going and finally react, they done did it - or they stall the courts for another round.
By "exploring" they mean "ignoring any decision anyway because no one is going to enforce it."
Easy, they just do whatever they want. SCOTUS has no way to enforce their rulings.
"The White House is exploring how to disobey the rule of law."
This is an illegitimate government.
Unless you've been living under a massive rock, you might have noticed that Trump has been disobeying the rule of law since the beginning of his second term.
Because here's the thing: the law isn't worth a damn if nobody enforces it, and the people in charge of enforcing the law are Trump puppets.
Unfortunately, it is legitimate. That's why Trump has been getting away with all this shit so far.
If / after he rigs the midterms, that might change.