Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs
National Review,
by
Brittany Bernstein
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
2/20/2026 10:27:09 AM
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Trump’s tariffs after finding the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not give him the power to impose sweeping protectionist measures.
The Court upheld an earlier federal circuit court ruling in a 6-3 decision, with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh dissenting.
“Based on two words separated by 16 others in … IEEPA,” Chief Justice John Roberts writes, “‘regulate’ and ‘importation’–the President asserts the independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, of any product, at any rate, for any amount of time.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 2/20/2026 10:31:55 AM (No. 2071013)
nATIONAL rEVIEW...
i'll wait for an lcommer to post a real story about this
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
philsner 2/20/2026 10:32:55 AM (No. 2071014)
And of course the NR loves this setback for the US economy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rushie 2/20/2026 10:35:06 AM (No. 2071015)
Me too 1.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MissGrits 2/20/2026 10:39:05 AM (No. 2071017)
Well, if we cannot impose tariffs on them, let's just not buy their goods at all! We can produce our own stuff!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/20/2026 10:45:32 AM (No. 2071021)
Notice that the Supreme Court issued this long awaited anti-Trump opinion giving the leftist Democrats a seemingly big victory just a few days before Trump is scheduled to give his State of the Union Address. What does that in itself tell you?
They are saying that Congress could change that law to allow Presidents to put tariffs in place as Trump has done, but can you even imagine the wimpy Congressional Republicans and their RINO class doing that? Beyond that, it is a 101% sure thing that the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats would never go along with any such change, as they have shown that they have been out from the get-go to sabotage Trump’s political agenda.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 2/20/2026 10:59:11 AM (No. 2071034)
Very disappointing. Our dysfunctional, ChiCom bribed Congress is so pathetically weak that they can't get together to decide if the sky is blue.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
davew 2/20/2026 11:06:21 AM (No. 2071037)
President Trump was standing against China in a desperate trade war for the survival of the American worker against Chinese slave labor, and the SCOTUS just disarmed him. Once again, the liberal elites showed they are useful idiots in the destruction of America by global barbarians.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/20/2026 11:09:57 AM (No. 2071044)
The Judges failed to actually LOOK AT THE LAW.
Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which allows the president to impose tariffs if imports threaten national security, and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which permits retaliatory tariffs against unfair foreign trade practices.
It is quite clear the Judges are POLITICAL HACKS doing their normal LYING!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 2/20/2026 11:28:25 AM (No. 2071066)
Anything to make sure Trump and his economic agenda do NOT succeed.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/20/2026 11:34:30 AM (No. 2071072)
Trump is suppose to be visiting China in the next week or two - cancel the trip. No way he can negotiate with China now. China, India, EU, etc - don't have to worry about a Supreme Court interference. So once again the elites in this country show their true colors as they celebrate the one thing that one President was doing to help our economy. They just cannot stand his (and ours) success.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kono 2/20/2026 11:40:28 AM (No. 2071080)
Ridiculous. Tariffs are RECIPROCAL, at levels specific for each market / country, based on negotiations with each market's authorities, should not qualify as "sweeping protectionist measures".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/20/2026 11:44:27 AM (No. 2071086)
I despise the SC and the judiciary. They are all hacks. None of them are impartial. None of them are intelligent. None of them should be in charge of anything.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Phantomll 2/20/2026 12:26:39 PM (No. 2071106)
To paraphrase Andrew Jackson: They've made their decision now let them enforce it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 2/20/2026 12:31:49 PM (No. 2071110)
I kind of expected that the Black - Robed Judiciuarchs would betray Trump..... And further, I'll bet the consumer prices on imported stuff that went up due to Tariffs, WON'T go back down in most cases.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/20/2026 12:49:11 PM (No. 2071116)
Surprise! Surprise! Actually, no, not really.
Just an observation. How many things has Trump done that no other politician would do? Tariffs is just one. Expelling the illegals and closing the border are others. Others are Greenland and the Gulf Of America. No doubt there are others.
This is what sets Trump apart from our other politicians. In many ways he is neither a Democrat or a Republican. He has shown everyone there is an alternative to how things get done. Our nation probably needs that. Trump is actually fixing things. Both parties hate that. It upsets all the shady deals they have made with America's enemies.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/20/2026 1:56:23 PM (No. 2071130)
Think about it, is Trump an establishment career politician or a successful businessman who has been trying to make America Great Again?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/20/2026 4:52:51 PM (No. 2071159)
I see that Gorsuch and Barrett went rogue on this. Way to go, justices.
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