Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.
I hate the fact that the media just reports that he’s doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he’s using to excuse them are nonexistent.
Democrats really can’t do much and you might not realise how close US is to the situation where Trump starts calling people foreign agents or criminals and locking them up. You ever wonder why he’s defying courts and clinging on to the ability to send people outside US judicial system.
8 Ds in the house has died this year alone. and no R has died as of yet. Ds dont have contigency replacements like the Rs do, they often do get rid of thier own most of the time before it gets worst.
Not really. The US Constitution is a rather short document. This was by design, to only provide a bare framework for a government, to be amended over time. But that didn’t really happen, and most work has been done in Congress and by SCOTUS after Marbury v. Madison.
You can read a whole bunch of info in articles like https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation03.html, but the tl;dr is that the Constitution says only Congress can make laws, but it can delegate some other authority. The section we’re talking about here doesn’t say it’s a power exclusive to congress, no, but it says Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, and Congress acts through law (literally, “acts of Congress”), so logically, taxes can only be set through Congressional law. And usually they are. But all the rules have gone out the window.
Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.
I hate the fact that the media just reports that he’s doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:
Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he’s using to excuse them are nonexistent.
Congress has surrendered its powers to Trump. Democrats in congress are sleeping on the job.
Democrats really can’t do much and you might not realise how close US is to the situation where Trump starts calling people foreign agents or criminals and locking them up. You ever wonder why he’s defying courts and clinging on to the ability to send people outside US judicial system.
8 Ds in the house has died this year alone. and no R has died as of yet. Ds dont have contigency replacements like the Rs do, they often do get rid of thier own most of the time before it gets worst.
it didn’t surrender anything, americans elected turnip in a majority of all houses
the Republican Party now has a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
that’s damn near as much as saying go ahead do whatever you want as possible
Canadians don’t even vote for the Prime Minister of Canada. How would they have voted for the president of the US?
Not a lawyer. Not an American.
But there must be more context, because by my read of this specific text it doesn’t appear to be defined as a power EXCLUSIVE to Congress?
Not really. The US Constitution is a rather short document. This was by design, to only provide a bare framework for a government, to be amended over time. But that didn’t really happen, and most work has been done in Congress and by SCOTUS after Marbury v. Madison.
You can read a whole bunch of info in articles like https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation03.html, but the tl;dr is that the Constitution says only Congress can make laws, but it can delegate some other authority. The section we’re talking about here doesn’t say it’s a power exclusive to congress, no, but it says Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, and Congress acts through law (literally, “acts of Congress”), so logically, taxes can only be set through Congressional law. And usually they are. But all the rules have gone out the window.