Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130B in Tariffs

Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by wat10000 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:03AM (#47263297)

Congress needs to step up and take its power back from the executive. There was no good reason for the President to have this power in the first place. Why the hell do we have emergency powers to impose tariffs? Is there going to be a fleet of nuclear-armed bombers headed for the USA and the only way to stop them is to impose tariffs? It's ridiculous.

Congress has been gradually handing their power over to the executive for decades. For decades, people have been warning that this was setting up for major abuse if you got a particularly bad president. Well, guess what....

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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by endemic on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:59AM (#47264099)

> Congress needs to step up and take its power back from the executive.

Won't happen with this administration at least; the expectation being that unless you are a yes-man, you'll be denounced as "not loyal" and voted out.

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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by doom2 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:16PM (#47264337)

Just wait until the next Democratic president is elected. The current crop of Republicans will suddenly remember that Congress can exercise this power.

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Re:Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130... by peebee67 on Friday March 06, 2026 @08:58PM (#47283632)

You must be young.

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