XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc
From: NoBody@nowhere.com
On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 14:31:22 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
>>>>> | Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
>
>>>> | U.S. Manufacturing Is in Retreat and Trump's Tariffs Aren't
>>>> | Helping
>
> | ...
> | I'm not a lawyer, but I talk to lawyers, and this isn't a
> | difficult case on the merits. Trump is clearly wrong on
> | both the letter and the spirit of the law. And when the
> | Supreme Court held its hearing, the tenor of the questions,
> | even from conservative justices, suggested that they
> | recognized that the administration had no case.
> |
> | So why have we had three months of silence? Well, this
> | isn't a difficult case on the merits, but it puts the six
> | right-wing members of the Court between a rock and hard
> | place, not intellectually, but personally.
> |
> | For a right-wing justice, ruling in the Trump
> | administration's favor in such an open-and-shut case would
> | amount to admitting that you're a pure partisan hack. And
> | even the right-wing faction on the court is trying to
> | maintain the fiction that it's still a deliberative body,
> | not a MAGA rubber stamp.
> |
> | But to rule against the administration would be to hand
> | Trump a humiliating defeat on one of his signature policy
> | issues. It might also be very expensive. Tariffs aren't the
> | revenue gusher Trump and his minions like to claim: Even
> | after the Trump hikes in tariff rates, customs receipts are
> | small compared with other sources of revenue and have made
> | only a modest dent in the U.S. budget deficit. But losing
> | that revenue and, worse, having to give it back would be a
> | financial embarrassment.
> | ...
>
>
> --bks
Krugman????
Laughter!
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