Trump tariffs ruled unlawful by federal appeals court

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/29/federal-court-blocks-trump-tariffs/

30 comments

  1. Woot! Woot!. However, this is Trump. He’ll boot it to the Supreme Court first.

  4. I don’t know what any of this means since we’re all living in Bizarro World anyway.

  5. US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8: “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States”

    Seems pretty clear to me.

  6. I’ll get a refund check for the tariffs I paid already, right?

  8. So? He’s a career criminal. Breaking the law and getting away with it is the one thing he is actually good at.

  9. Well, just add it onto the pile of illegal and unlawful rulings then and expect nothing to change.

    Actually, that’s not true. There will definitely be an all caps tweet (or whatever they’re called on Truth Social) about this.

  11. Remember Trump is technically claiming a national emergency of fentanyl, trade deficit, and declining manufacturing. Which is how he is using the International Emergency Economics Powers Act.

    It’s supposed to be used against specific nations we might be in conflict with, or punishing nations that are committing horrible crimes and not allowing their leaders to launder their wealth through the US.

    If SCOTUS allows this then they are opening the door for him to use even more emergency powers on made up things, which is very bad news for everyone.

  12. Doesn’t matter even if they get removed the prices won’t be going down. It’s all a scam

  13. 4 years of “do it and ask questions later policy”. They realized everything they want to do is illegal, but it might take just long enough for them to make billions while the rulings trickle in.

  17. Let’s just get it to the Supreme Court so they can rule in his favor and then, when (I mean, if it ever happens again) a democrat gets in office they can overturn their previous ruling. Basically, we are fucked for the next 50 years, unless we expand the court. Trump is an idiot, but his handlers aren’t dumb. They appointed young justices for this reason explicitly.

  18. Correct, overly broad tariffs are in fact, a National Sales Tax. Such a tax requires Congressional approval, which Trump does not have. It’s the Mainstream Media’s endless sanewashing and refusal to call a spade a spade for how we got here.

  19. I sort of hope he has to carry tariff policies full term. He shouldn’t get to abort this terrible economic policy.

    If the courts make him reverse it he will have something to blame.

  20. Wealth transfer from the working class to the opulent class complete. Well done everyone.

  21. Always so fucking stupid. “The tariffs are illegal, but we will allow them to remain in place so he can appeal to SCOTUS”. If they’re illegal, fucking block them.

  22. Ooh, another ruling that will get torn up by the Supreme Court.

  24. Of course they’re (the tariffs) unlawful (unconstitutional, actually); *that’s* precisely why the felon-in-chief likes/wants them.

  25. Still won 7-4 which means four judiciary members ( Republicans) don’t believe in taxation with representation. Which is the whole reason for this fucking country

  27. Now we get to find out if the SCOTUS will kiss the ring or save America   

  29. Hopefully SCOTUS will agree that we should be liberated from Liberation Day Tariffs.

  30. the whole presidency is unlawful, what a joke of a ruling that won’t do anything at all

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