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A U.S. federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs from going into effect, ruling that the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from nations that sell more to the United States than they buy.

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[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 101 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol. I wonder how quickly the Trump administration will get this before the Supreme Court.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 64 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Trump is gonna explode tonight.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The three judge panel included Reagan, Obama, and Trump appointees. It was a unanimous ruling. Ketchup will be all over the walls of Mar-a-Lago.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A Reagan appointee? Jesus fucking Christ, these people need to retire.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

If he's got 3 more years in him, I won't mind.

But not now. They can die when the next democratic (and hopefully progressive democrat) president is sworn in. Until then, they need to stay the fuck alive.

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[–] kwedd@feddit.nl 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Trump administration minutes later filed a notice of appeal.

As soon as humanly possible, I guess.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Ordinarily, an order from this court would be appealed to the appellate court for the federal circuit, but I'm sure the administration will attempt to leapfrog this and try to immediately appeal to the Supreme Court. Since you only need one justice to grant cert, they'll probably accept it. The real question is whether they'll roll over for Trump. I can see Barrett and Roberts joining the liberal wing in upholding the court's order striking down the tariffs, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 13 points 1 day ago

We'll see if it sticks. The big, fat, orange turd is so greasy that morning ever fucking sticks to him.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Hot take: but this is going to suck. The tariffs were guaranteed to tank the economy and would be someone that no one who supported trump could staunchly defend. Now we're going to get a decade of fascists saying "but the tariffs we wanted were never actually instituted so we'll never know how good they would have been. That's why I want to do this worse thing."

Like, I understand that the liberation day tariffs were about to send the US into depression mode and I still kind of think them being blocked is a net good just cause of how bad we would have been fucked.

But God damn it's going to be exhausting.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Republicans wrecked the world economy in 2008, destroying half the wealth in the world, and were only out of power for 2 years. No matter how bad it is, there is nothing that can pierce the reality distortion field generated by the right wing propaganda machine.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

You make it sound like they just did it effortlessly in 2008. The Republicans had been working hard on that crisis since 1971!

[–] warm@kbin.earth 37 points 1 day ago

They would just move onto something else anyway, trump supporters will deflect until their death.

[–] 10001110101@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I was kind of hoping this fascist government would fail-fast so we could start rebuilding.

[–] TheLiveFive@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

That's been his plan though. Whatever they let him do, he would try to do more. Then they would stop him in court, then he would blame the courts.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

If they get their way, and we have a depression, they'll blame the Democrats. If they get stopped before it goes that far, they'll blame the Democrats. If the Dems are going to get blamed either way, let's do it our way instead of theirs.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Eh, with USAID gone and SNAP being gutted, a lot of the farmers are going to go bankrupt. With the Medicaid cuts, a lot of the rural hospitals (the main employers in rural areas) are going to go bankrupt. And if the "big beautiful bill" doesn't pass, all social security and medicare payments will stop until something passes. A lot of bad things will happen to the "wrong rural people".

Also, Trump has another law he can use to make tariffs with, and it will be another 6 months before the court rules on that.

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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah absolutely this.

This is the back down Trump has been hoping for really.

When everything goes to shit he can blame everyone else because he wasn't allowed to roll out his dumb plan.

Honestly over the last few months I've been thinking a catastrophic financial crash might just dethrone trump. Not anymore.

[–] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That has been my position all along. I think the best thing long term is if shit gets real bad really quickly. The slower the decent the longer the suffering will be overall, and the less people are likely to notice and remember.

[–] _wizard@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It could have been super bad and we'd have still forgotten by next election.

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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Gonna love seeing Alito and Thomas try to argue that in this one very specific and limited case it's perfectly fine for Congress to abdicate its Constitutionally appropriated powers to the executive branch.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

I'm sure some precedent was set during a mutiny trial in the Roanoke colony or something...

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

White House spokesperson Kush Desai said that trade deficits amount to a national emergency “that has decimated American communities, left our workers behind, and weakened our defense industrial base — facts that the court did not dispute.”

Well the new budget torpedoed this argument doesn't it.

[–] timeghost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

decimated American communities

The trade deficits have reduced American communities by 1/10th? Can this be..?

[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

As a Portlander, I'm really happy that some of the people that we elected here in Portland and Oregon lead this legal fight to stop Trump's dumb fucking bullshit trade way by fiat.

In some ways we are saving the economy from Trump, and thus saving Trump from facing the ramifications of his own stupid fucking decisions, but on the other hand, it's nice that something is being done to challenge his authority.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 9 points 1 day ago

Chaining this idiotic monkey to his desk so he can't fling poo all over the constitution.

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He doesn't give a shit about the tariffs its just market manipulation for him and his buddies

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

They're also leverage for bribes.

It’s a bit from column A and a smidge from column B.

The tariffs and planned economic uncertainty contribute to the destabilization of the US and its relationships whilst trump and the greed team ransack it on the way down.

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

US should also refund everyone that got hit

[–] teejay@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is going to be a huge part of it in the coming days. How the fuck do you sort that out? People have already been hit. Inventory is already here and has been taxed. Who gets paid back? Who is going to buy the tariffed goods knowing the next shipment will be cheaper?

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Friends of mine in the board game industry have already laid off all their employees during the 145% tariffs.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, several board game companies straight up closed. Trump killed small businesses. Trump killed family owned farms. Trump killed people with his covid shit policies.

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