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   He now considers them fools and lapdogs for the Rhinos and the radical left   
   Democrats.   
      
   He needs to sign a Imperial Decree dissolving them.   
      
   Tariffs ruling is major blow to Trump's second-term agenda of taxing the   
   shit out of the middle class and poor to fund tax cuts for the 1%.   
      
      
      
   Donald Trump had been warning for months that a Supreme Court decision like   
   this would be catastrophic.   
      
   If the court curtailed his ability to impose these tariffs, he had said, it   
   would be an "economic and national security disaster".   
      
   A six-justice majority of the Supreme Court, in ruling against the   
   president on Friday, didn't care much about his concerns.   
      
   Congress, not the president, has the power to impose tariffs, the justices   
   ruled. And nothing in the law that the president based his tariffs on, the   
   Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, delegated such sweeping powers to   
   Trump.   
      
   Trump, in a hastily arranged press conference on Friday afternoon, lashed   
   out at the justices who ruled against him. He said he was "ashamed" of the   
   three conservatives who struck down his tariffs and called the three   
   liberals on the court a "disgrace".   
      
   Trump then promised to reimpose tariffs using presidential authority   
   available under other laws, including a new temporary 10% global tariff   
   that he said he would sign on Friday.   
      
   The court's decision represents a rare check on this president's broad use   
   of executive authority.   
      
   A majority of the justices over the past year have shown a willingness to   
   allow Trump to press ahead with his agenda, particularly on immigration and   
   reshaping the federal government, even as legal challenges work their way   
   through the court system.   
      
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   This case, which was fast-tracked through the court system as an emergency,   
   slams the door on one such expansive use of presidential authority.   
      
   With several other major cases involving controversial uses of executive   
   power, such as efforts to end birthright citizenship and to dismiss a   
   Federal Reserve governor based on alleged improprieties, this may not be   
   Trump's only setback in the coming months.   
      
   At the very least, this decision weakens Trump's hand when trying to force   
   other nations to make concessions to the US and tarnishes his veneer of   
   invincibility.   
      
   Weakness begets weakness, and America's trading partners may be emboldened   
   to take a tougher line with the US now that the president's tariff powers   
   have been curtailed.   
      
   It also opens up the possibility that the Trump administration may have to   
   give back much of the tariff revenue it collected over the past year.   
      
   While the justices left this thorny issue to be decided by a lower court,   
   Brett Kavanaugh in his dissent warned that the process is likely to be a   
   "mess".   
      
   The Trump administration had plenty of time to prepare for Friday's   
   decision.   
      
   Supreme Court precedent, and the attitude of many of the justices when the   
   case was argued in court last November, indicated that an adverse outcome   
   for the president was quite possible.   
      
   Jamieson Greer, Trump's top trade adviser, said last month that the White   
   House has "a lot of different options" on how to proceed if the tariffs   
   were struck down.   
      
   "The reality," he said, "is the president is going to have tariffs as part   
   of his trade policy going forward."   
      
   The other options that could be at Trump's disposal are more limited,   
   however.   
      
   They require government agencies to produce detailed reports to justify   
   imposing tariffs, and they have limits on their scope and duration.   
      
   Gone are the days when the president could threaten, or enact, triple-digit   
   tariffs with the wave of a pen or the click of a Truth Social post.   
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   A Rotterdam container ship prepares to dock at Port Miami   
      
   New tariffs will require a longer lead-in time before they are imposed.   
      
   That could limit the kind of economic disruption that took place when the   
   president announced his expansive "Liberation Day" tariffs last year, and   
   would give other nations more time to prepare their responses.   
      
   If Trump wants to restore his free hand to impose new tariffs, he could   
   always ask Congress for the kind of explicit authorisation that the Supreme   
   Court has said is necessary. But with narrow Republican majorities in the   
   House and Senate, and midterm elections looming, the success of such a move   
   seems unlikely.   
      
   In fact, some of Trump's conservative allies in Congress may be breathing   
   somewhat easier with this decision.   
      
   The president's tariffs - and the costs they have imposed on consumers -   
   have been unpopular among many Americans. Republican candidates in   
   battleground states and congressional districts would have been open to   
   Democratic attacks for supporting Trump's policies.   
      
      
      
   That area of vulnerability has been reduced for now.   
      
   Friday's decision will set up an awkward moment on Tuesday, when Trump   
   delivers his annual State of the Union Address to a joint session of   
   Congress. Traditionally, many of the Supreme Court justices sit in the   
   front row of the chamber.   
      
   The president, after spending months issuing dire warnings against the   
   court, could stand eye-to-eye with the justices who eroded one of the key   
   pillars of Trump's second-term agenda.   
      
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