President Trump suffered a gut-wrenching defeat at the Supreme Court.
Trump had to respond.
And Trump called Brett Kavanaugh one four-letter word that put jaws on the ground.
As Conservative Reboots reports:
The Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling striking down tariffs enacted by President Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA).
Trump imposed these reciprocal tariffs to force countries to the negotiating table to undo decades of unfair trade deals that ripped off Americans and to reshore vital American industries.
Three RINO justices – Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Chief Justice John Roberts – sided with the court’s three liberals to overturn the centerpiece of President Trump’s economic agenda.
Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito – the court’s three actual
conservatives- sided with the President, with Kavanaugh authoring a 63-page dissent that caught President Trump’s attention.
In a post on social media, Trump lauded the three conservatives for standing up to foreign influence and the swamp and singled out Kavanaugh as his “hero” for his opinion.
“My new hero is United States Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and, of course, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that they want to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
In his dissent, Kavanaugh debunked the majority’s lawless claims that IEEPA didn’t authorize the President to enact these tariffs.
“The tariffs at issue here may or may not be wise policy,” Kavanaugh stated. “But as a matter of text, history, and precedent, they are clearly lawful.”
Kavanaugh mocked the idea that the majority held that IEEPA’s language authorizing the President to regulate imports meant he could unilaterally ban all imports from foreign countries, but couldn’t impose one dollar in tariffs.
The notion that the statutory language that allowed regulation of imports didn’t include tariffs involved mental gymnastics that could only lead to the conclusion that the six justices wanted to rule against Trump and needed to invent a rationale.
“It does not make much sense to think that IEEPA allows the President in a declared national emergency to, for example, shut off all or most imports from China, but not to impose even a $1 tariff on imports from China,” Kavanaugh added.
Kavanaugh also noted that “the Court’s decision might not prevent Presidents from imposing most if not all of these same sorts of tariffs under other statutory authorities,” adding that, “the Court’s decision is not likely to greatly restrict Presidential tariff authority going forward.”
In his dissent, Kavanaugh pointed out that “numerous other federal statutes authorize the president to impose tariffs and might justify most (if not all) of the tariffs at issue in this case.”
Justice Thomas agreed and took issue with the majority’s opinion, which falsely claimed that Congress never delegated its power over taxation in foreign commerce to the President.
“This Court has consistently upheld Congress’s delegation of power over foreign commerce, including the power to impose duties on imports,” Thomas declared. “The Court has long conveyed to Congress that it may ‘invest the President with large discretion in matters arising out of the execution of statutes relating to trade and commerce with other nations.’”
There are rumors that Justice Alito will retire this summer.
It is a safe bet that if that happens, Trump won’t look to Gorsuch, Barrett, or Roberts as models for Alito’s replacement.
