HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — The Supreme Court “just doesn’t seem to care,” President Donald Trump said Monday.
He wrote in a social media post that its decision on his tariffs, which were invalidated earlier this year, and possible position on birthright citizenship – a right the administration is targeting – could harm the U.S.
“They failed miserably on Tariffs, needlessly costing the USA Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in potential rebates for the benefit haters and scammers. Why??? Don’t do it again!” Trump said on Truth Social. “The Country can only withstand so many bad decisions from a Court that just doesn’t seem to care.”
The Supreme Court ruled in February that Trump exceeded his authority by setting tariffs through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law on presidential regulation of the economy during crises. Chief Justice John Roberts said in the majority opinion that the president needs congressional approval to impose the import tax.
“Recognizing the taxing power’s unique importance, and having just fought a revolution motivated in large part by ‘taxation without representation,’ the Framers gave Congress ‘alone . . . access to the pockets of the people,’” Roberts wrote.
The Supreme Court may also reject Trump’s reinterpretation of birthright citizenship, which has been granted to most people born in the U.S. for more than a century. Key justices appeared skeptical on Wednesday, when the administration defended a restrictive executive order on the right, that Trump’s position is in line with the Constitution.
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