No. of Recommendations: 6
Found a right leaning article about the tariff decision, which quotes Thomas' dissent.
Crucially, IEEPA's Sec. 203 authorized the president to "investigate, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest; by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States."
Moreover -- and here lies the key -- "[t]hroughout American history, the authority to 'regulate importation' has been understood to include the authority to impose duties on imports."https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/breaking-j...God and Savior Trump, in his presser, said he can do anything else to the trade of another country: embargo, blockade, all their trade, or certain items, but he can't tax it. Thomas' dissent says it is "understood" regulatory power includes taxation. Anyone notice irony in a strict constructionist "legislating from the bench", to read powers that are not explicitly stated in the law?
Steve
