AIligator AIcatraz 45-47! wrote:
Where else would we start, besides Oren’s thoughts on the Supreme Court tariff ruling:
I am surprised by how broadly and bluntly the Supreme Court blocked the use of IEEPA tariffs, when it could more easily have issued some guidelines cabining the authority and then sent them back to lower courts to work out. The decision that IEEPA allows no tariffs under any circumstances, by contrast, creates the rather bizarre situation—as President Trump noted in his press conference—where he could restrict trade, license trade, embargo trade, mandate quotas on trade, but never collect any tax or fee on it. That’s a somewhat ironic position for the Chief Justice to adopt, after he saved President Obama’s signature health care policy by rather creatively construing a tax where only a mandate existed.
The Constitution delegates the authority to lay and collect money on imports to Congress, not the President. Nothing in the IEEPA changes that. So, I don’t know who Oren is, but he sounds like a moron.
