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A comment on Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130B in Tariffs. Parent comment

Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by gruez on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:26AM (#47262702)
>.... what? 3 of the justices were nominated by Trump. You think the people appointing them didn't have internal deliberations before they were appointed, including about things Trump had thought about like tariffs?

Given that the 2/3 justices appointed by Trump voted against the tariffs, what's the implication here? That Trump deliberately picked anti-tariff justices just so he can engage in a rube goldberg plan to enact tariffs, buy tariff refunds on the cheap, and then have them revoked?

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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by mothballed on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:29AM (#47262750)
Trump can profit either way, the key is the insider knowledge to bet for or against them. Admin insiders financially engineered where they profited from refunds.

Any vote towards what the insider information pointed to was a vote 'for' the admin as they had financially engineered their winnings based on that. And meanwhile Trump immediately turned to a new tariff structure. The vote they gave was the strongest vote in favor of the admin insiders they could have given, and meanwhile didn't actually stop Trump from continuing on with the scheme.

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