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What does it look like when everyone sues to claw back the unlawful tariffs paid? YC startup opportunity (take a cut of whatever you claw back for customers).
This whole thing where “well this is wrong but you have to pay the illegal tax anyway” makes no sense.
Similar to "you lost the election, but you have the same power for almost three months".
Very similar to the old "only Congress can change the law where they agreed to create the department of education and it is unconstitutional to get rid of it without Congress, but we don't care if you fire every employee" gag
The majority in SCOTUS seems to just be “it’s ok if our guy does it”.
Because they know scotus will overturn it and want to save people the trouble.

Probably something about the energetic executive needing to have total discretion over what a fentanyl emergency is and how to mitigate it.

Consider how many of these injunctions have been ignored, challenged, and gone through a separate appeals process, only to be struck down by a SCOTUS shadow docket ruling. I suspect the reasoning is that a final SCOTUS ruling will be faster by not issuing an immediate injunction.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/supr...

> This whole thing where “well this is wrong but you have to pay the illegal tax anyway” makes no sense.

There is a reason why faith in American judiciary is at an all time low. The government is doing illegal things with no repercussions. People are getting harmed. How can anyone trust the system?

> Tariff's found illegal, but will stay for now

Can someone please fix the title? Apostrophes are not used like this.

Article title: "Trump’s Global Tariffs Found Illegal by US Appeals Court"
Nondelegation is about to disappear from the scotus vocabulary for a couple of months.
Rule of law is dead in the US. It's sad watching it slide further and further into autocracy.
Tariffs definitely weren't illegal in the past, most of the federal government's revenue came from them up until the IRS was created.