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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMAGA Fury Erupts as Trump's Epic Legal Loss on Tariffs Slowly Sinks In -- The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/195886/maga-fury-erupts-trump-epic-legal-loss-tariffs-slowly-sinksGreg Sargent
As Trumps MAGA-friendly advisers rage over a harsh ruling against his tariffs, a lawyer for the challengers explains how it exposed deep weaknesses in their legal justificationand what will happen now.
President Donald Trumps advisers are raging over a court ruling that temporarily blocked many of Trumps tariffs. Stephen Miller called it judicial tyranny. Another top adviser called the judges globalist. And press secretary Karoline Leavitt seethed that unelected judges have grown dangerous. While an appeals court did put a stay on the ruling, letting the tariffs proceed for now, its become overwhelmingly clear that the tariffs are extremely vulnerable legally, and MAGA rage continues to boil. The whiplash in the courts underscores what a fiasco of uncertainty Trump unleashed, and our trading partners now think their hand has been strengthened in trade talks, revealing more weakness. We talked to George Mason Universitys Ilya Somin, a lead lawyer for the challengers, about why the ruling is crushing for Trumps case, what it reveals about his broader abuses of power, and how he still can be stopped. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
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MAGA Fury Erupts as Trump's Epic Legal Loss on Tariffs Slowly Sinks In -- The New Republic (Original Post)
erronis
Jun 2025
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ThoughtCriminal
(14,706 posts)1. The courts are actually doing them a favor
The tariffs are/were a policy disaster in every way and Trump and the GOP were going to own the chaos and economic catastrophe.
Now we may still be looking at a recession (which they will blame on "deep-state communist activist judges" that won't let Trump do what he wants), but not a full-blown depression. MAGA will embrace this spin as reality.
PSPS
(15,218 posts)2. Yeah, but there's that pesky clause in the "big beautiful bill" that renders court rulings unenforceable.
madville
(7,841 posts)3. Appeals court reversed this the next day
Or am I thinking of something else?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,706 posts)4. Not reversed. Temporarily granted a stay.