The champagne corks barely hit the floor at CNN before President Donald Trump made the entire Supreme Court ruling irrelevant.
In a stunning display of constitutional chess, Trump responded to Wednesday's 6-3 SCOTUS decision striking down his IEEPA-based tariffs by immediately reimposing every single one of them — using alternative legal authorities the Court's majority opinion never even touched.
Here's what the robed establishment and their media cheerleaders didn't count on: the President of the United States actually read their ruling. And he found the gaping hole within minutes.
Legal experts, including former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, confirmed what Trump's team already knew — Section 301, Section 131, and multiple executive powers related to national security remained completely untouched by the Court's narrow ruling. The justices struck down one pathway. Trump simply walked through another door.
"They couldn't write one sentence about whether the government keeps or returns hundreds of billions of dollars," Trump noted, pointing out the ruling's stunning silence on $175 billion in tariff revenue already collected. Stephen Moore called it "shameful." That's putting it mildly.
Consider the logical pretzel six Supreme Court justices just tied themselves into: Under their ruling, President Trump cannot charge a single dollar in tariffs under IEEPA. But he can impose a full trade embargo. He can cut off all commerce with any nation on Earth. He can economically devastate an entire country.
But charge them ten dollars? Unconstitutional.
The contradiction would be laughable if it weren't so transparently political.
The Court sat on this case for six months. Six months while American businesses struggled to plan their futures. Six months while China watched, waited, and strategized. And when did they finally rule? Right before the State of the Union, timed for maximum disruption.
Coincidence? Patriots know better.
Source: Next News Network
