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SCOTUS to hear tariffs case beginning November 3rd

Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:35 pm
Posted by The Egg
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2004
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Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:35 pm
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59309 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:39 pm to
I understand that this isn’t 1801, but in the lesson I taught today, we learned that Thomas Jefferson believed that the federal government served three primary functions:

Protect the country from foreign threats
Deliver the mail
Collect customs duties
Posted by IMSA_Fan
Member since Jul 2024
561 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:46 pm to
The “government” not the “president”
Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
8176 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:49 pm to
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The “government” not the “president”


The President is the chief executive of the federal government and authorized by Congress to set federal tariff policy under a panoply of statutes.
Posted by Stuckinthe90s
Dallas, TX
Member since Apr 2013
2755 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:50 pm to
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The “government” not the “president”


While you are correct, tariffs and duties are outlined in the constitution as being the responsibility of the congress. Unfortunately Congress in its efforts to offload their responsibilities so they can work on their reelection campaigns decided long ago to send this responsibility to the President. It is a completely open and shut case as long as the president can highlight a trade imbalance, national security risk, or economic emergency. All things that should be very easy considering we have a trade deficit with almost everyone, it is certainly a national security risk, and it probably isn’t an economic emergency, but the president has the authority to declare that and he did.
This post was edited on 9/9/25 at 3:52 pm
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59309 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:55 pm to
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The “government” not the “president”


Constitutional Center
Posted by IMSA_Fan
Member since Jul 2024
561 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 3:58 pm to
It was clearly unconstitutional when congress handed those powers over and this is the first time it’s being challenged at this level

Article I, Section: “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, … but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.”
This post was edited on 9/9/25 at 3:59 pm
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
112054 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 4:04 pm to
Trump & Co. should pore through every statute that would authorize his tariffs (going back to 1789) to "save" every tariff they can and have an EO/declaration ready to go the day of the issuance of the opinion if it is contrary to his position.
Posted by bama1959
Huntsville, AL
Member since Nov 2008
5027 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 4:24 pm to
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It was clearly unconstitutional when congress handed those powers over and this is the first time it’s being challenged at this level


Says who? You?

Sounds like major precedence here and SCOTUS gives a ton of weight to precedence.

Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
8176 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 4:25 pm to
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It was clearly unconstitutional when congress handed those powers over and this is the first time it’s being challenged at this level


Try again. The issue was litigated before in J. W. Hampton, Jr. & Co. v. United States, 276 U.S. 394 (1928).

quote:

Held that the delegation of power is not unconstitutional.


Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
8176 posts
Posted on 9/9/25 at 4:26 pm to
He’s wrong, like most TDS sufferers.
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