{"id":3228,"date":"2026-02-20T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:00:13","slug":"scotus-blocking-of-trumps-emergency-tariffs-is-a-small-but-meaningful-check-on-a-lawless-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Blocking of Trump\u2019s \u201cEmergency\u201d Tariffs Is a Small But Meaningful Check on a Lawless President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today, the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump\u2019s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to implement sweeping tariffs was unlawful. <strong>Global Trade Watch director Melinda St. Louis issued the following statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s decision today deals a blow to Trump\u2019s illegal, chaotic tariffs that have been used to benefit powerful corporate interests over working people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen used lawfully and as part of a wider strategic policy, tariffs can help protect U.S. jobs, raise labor and environmental standards, and correct corporate-driven trade imbalances that harm workers and communities. But Trump\u2019s approach was never strategic, constructive, or rooted in concern for working people. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese sweeping tariffs were deployed to bully other countries to benefit his corporate cronies and to fuel anti-humanitarian political goals, not to uplift the people harmed by decades of corporate-rigged trade policy. While today\u2019s decision is a meaningful check on a specific abuse of power, Trump has made clear that he plans to use other tariff authorities to barrel ahead with his global bullying and secretive dealmaking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress and the courts should exercise their constitutional checks and balances over all of Trump\u2019s authoritarian power grabs and should demand a trade policy that prioritizes the lives of working people over the billionaires that this administration has been carrying water for since day one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump\u2019s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to implement sweeping tariffs was unlawful. 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