Friday, February 20, 2026

SCOTUS pulled the plug on the tariff bullshit.

 EmptyWheel has the story, with a comment thread already started.

https://emptywheel.net/as-expected-scotus-rules-against-trump-on-tariffs/?unapproved=1129144&moderation-hash=8d7c30bffa05ea076f6de9493e3ed32a#comment-1129144 

Tightly analytical, so who'd think to reinvent the Wheel? It links, with further linking already in the commentary thread, so go there, read about it. 

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WATCH LIVE: Trump holds news conference after Supreme Court strikes down his global tariffs

Says he's not a TACO, more or less. We suffer. He reads his speech. Did Stephen Miller write it? Who? 2028 is a number with promise. 

He seems to be saying the citizens getting the pass through hurt from his mischief is something he intends to continue under a repaint. We take it in the gut, gut punched by a fraud in the White House, while the importers await their lawsuits outcomes.

He says "billions that have come into our country." That's us, via the pass through, taking the hit. Not overseas people, they mark up the goods. Not the importers, they mark up the goods. Go figure what the bloviating reduces to. Why can't we buy Chinese electric cars that a better and cheaper than an Elon Musk Tesla. Figure that one out, as to whether Elon and Trump are anything but tight like-minded fascists, left hand washing the right.