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erronis

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Sun Jun 1, 2025, 07:44 PM Jun 2025

MAGA 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-sinks
Greg Sargent

As Trump’s 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 justification—and what will happen now.

President Donald Trump’s advisers are raging over a court ruling that temporarily blocked many of Trump’s 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, it’s 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 University’s Ilya Somin, a lead lawyer for the challengers, about why the ruling is crushing for Trump’s 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 OP
The courts are actually doing them a favor ThoughtCriminal Jun 2025 #1
Yeah, but there's that pesky clause in the "big beautiful bill" that renders court rulings unenforceable. PSPS Jun 2025 #2
Appeals court reversed this the next day madville Jun 2025 #3
Not reversed. Temporarily granted a stay. ThoughtCriminal Jun 2025 #4

ThoughtCriminal

(14,706 posts)
1. The courts are actually doing them a favor
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 07:53 PM
Jun 2025

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.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:08 PM
Jun 2025
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