So let me get this straight, the companies that raised their prices based on Trump's tariffs get to apply for a refund with no requirement to lower prices and pass that refund on to the consumers who actually had to pony up the money at the 'cash register' every day. Once again, corporations get an undeserved bailout while the American consumer gets shafted. Typical.
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Once again, corporations get an undeserved bailout while the American consumer gets shafted. Typical.
I hate that we call ourselves consumers and not citizens
That there is the big loss
...and those refunds will flow through Howard Lutnick (and son's) business.
Just more crime. When will Americans stop bending over and taking it from these criminals?
It was supposed to be once the bread and circuses became unaffordable, but we're all so overworked that we don't have the energy to punch up.
I wonder if post-refund if a class-action lawsuit gets opened. While lawyers would take a huge cut, at least some would make it to the population.
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An actual useful court should've made this ruling on day 1
So they are going to pay it back right?……….Right?
There are already lawsuits filed for refunds of tariff payments. Of course the money will go to the companies that made the payments. All of us who actually paid them by paying more for basically every consumer good are out of luck.
Wealth transfer from labor to the ownership class.
Sounds like the system is working as intended.
Yup. This is exactly what these tariffs did.
This was the highest tax increase on the American people in decades. And MAGA idiots cheered the entire time they lost money. Fuck all of them.
Companies that made the payments already sold their rights to this refunds to investment funds for cents on the dollar. Now the funds will make shitload of money. And guess who invested in all of it? Yes, people connected to Trump!
https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/
They straight out robbed everyone.
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Yeah, it is kind of like seeing you car that was stolen on the news being returned to the person who resold it from the person who stole your car.
Justice!
Hah! It gets better than that.
We are going to have to pay again in taxes to make up for the new shortfall.
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Yeah of course, now the big importing companies get billions of dollars... oh you meant to the consumer, tough luck.
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At his White House news conference, Trump announced alternative options, including an immediate 10% global tariff.
Lol, the US is a clown show.
Not a serious country. Just a pedo haven for reality tv stars.
I'm shocked! SHOCKED I tell you!
I am. Sincerely, I'm shocked. This is quite the surprise.
It's not the 6-3 ruling I expected at all. Was fully thinking would be 6-3 that it was okay for him to do it not saying he can't
I mean it's such an incredibly unambiguous 9-0 on a legal basis and he still got three nonetheless.
It's not like this court is known for actually following legal basis or the constitution so 3 against not at all surprise
Understand that this is SCOTUS believing they're helping Trump by removing the unpopular tariffs while handing out huge amounts of cash in an election year
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Why? Lutnick's kid had a financial benefit in the tariffs getting overturned. The Epstein class helps each other
“They have made their ruling, now let us see them enforce it.”
Now several companies will sue my government for damages.
yaaaaay
Another illegal {insert thing here}?
Oh, wow, is it time to arrest and charge?
Or, will you do nothing just like the 7456 times the fat cunt broke your laws in the last year and you did fuck all?
An illegal executive order isn't a crime, it just doesn't count.
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Too little too late supreme court. There's no one left to enforce the decision.
This was planned. Blitzkrieg policies are working as intended.
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Important to note that the ruling just says Trump exceeded his authority in setting the tariffs, not that the tariffs themselves were illegal/unconstitutional. That means that Congress can authorize Trump to continue doing this. The question is whether Mike Johnson and John Thune have the numbers to pass that law. They already both quashed efforts to curb Trump's authority before.
I'm not too worried about additional tariffs passing through congress, though. That would have been the safer approach to try from the beginning if Trump's people thought they could make it work. They opted for this workaround loophole nonsense specifically to go around congress because they had already ruled out the possibility of congressional approval.
I just don't think Trump could ever manage to get enough support from congress. Certainly not with how unpopular the tariffs currently are, and certainly not right before the midterms.
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Any other ruling wouldn't have made sense. The issue was not about if tariffs are legal, but rather if the President has the authority to unilaterally set them.
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As if that'll stop the orange nonce.
While him and his enablers suffer no consequences then he is defacto above the law
It doesn't matter. Remember all those times when Trump & Co set a tariff percentage, then lowered it a few weeks later? I wonder why? Maybe somebody made a "donation" to his bitcoin account. He got what he wanted.
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He came back with another one.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/20/us/trump-tariffs-supreme-court
So the Supreme Court finally found out what we all already knew?
But a few of them clearly still haven't gotten the memo?
I mean I'm trying to be happy about this news, but it's kind of just more proof how pathetic and corrupt our SC is.
I mean, as much of a fucking mess this is going to cause, and as much as they should have said this a year ago, this is still very good news as far as I am concerned. Bare minimum, all the tarriffs currently in place by Trump are canceled going forward and it's going to be a while before anything analogous can be put back into place.
It's not all the tariffs, just the ones he justified using the 1977 Emergency Act. So of course, now he'll use another justification, and it'll take SC(R)OTUS another year to rule on those.
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Good, but prices continue to rise every time the orange dumbfuck yaps about tariffs.
Ooh boy, refunds! Yay!
We should make sure to refund all the corporations and businesses - by court order! If we do that, surely it will trickle down this time.
Whoa.
Well, I bet my pants that Justice Clarence Thomas is a dissenting opinion. Does it say in the article?
There's only one way to find out: ask people what's in the article.
Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch joined with Roberts and the three liberal justices in the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.
I just wanted to guess before I read it.
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