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Re:Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court by rtkwe on Friday February 20, 2026 @01:37PM (#47091906)
Only if you ignore the explicit grant to Congress in Article 1 Section 8... You're trying to argue an implicit grant somehow trumps an explicit grant.

> The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises

[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C1-1-...

Re:Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court by k1ko on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:12PM (#47093257)
It's obviously not that simple. If we follow your logic then we would expect that no previous President was able to enact tariffs. We obviously know that to be false as Presidents in the past have enacted a wide range of tariffs.
Re:Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court by DangitBobby on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:45PM (#47097585)
We also know that in the past the constitution has been violated for political experience.
Re:Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court by rtkwe on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:00PM (#47143836)
The argument the majority of the court went with in a few different forms is that a grant that goes against the constitutional grants needs to be explicit and IEEPA is not explicit.