Trump goes to WAR with SCOTUS and Imposes Brand New Tariffs!
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The US Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Trump’s tariffs in a 6-3 decision. Chief Justices Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch sided with the three liberal justices. The high court did not address the billions of dollars collected from the tariffs. Justice Kavanaugh wrote a scathing dissent and warned that the Court’s decision has created a big mess. Trump slammed the liberal justices and praised Justice Kavanaugh for writing a ‘brilliant’ dissent. He also doubled down by enacting a brand new 10% tariff!
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| 0:00.0 | We do. We've got a very fractured opinion, but initially what it says, we know it's |
| 0:07.7 | authored the primary opinion by the Chief Justice and says essentially that this AIPA, |
| 0:12.7 | this law that grants the President emergency powers did not, it looks like by this first blush |
| 0:18.3 | reading by Justice, the Chief Justice here, does not give him the power to levy these tariffs that he's levied. |
| 0:26.6 | Part of this initial opinion says the words regulate an importation. The President says that gives him the independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, any product, any rate, |
| 0:37.9 | any time. These words, it says, cannot bear such weight. We know we've got a dissent by Justice |
| 0:43.3 | Kavanaugh, by Thomas and Alito, it looks like. And those were the three we thought during the |
| 0:48.0 | arguments, if anyone would be persuaded to allow the president to move forward with these tariffs, |
| 0:52.8 | they would be the ones to do it. |
| 0:57.8 | So at first blush, like I said, there are multiple parts and concurrences to this opinion, |
| 1:03.0 | but it looks like what the primary holding is going to be is that these tariffs cannot be used in the way that the president had tried to use them. |
| 1:05.9 | Let me get you to the closing paragraph that we have in this initial opinion here. |
| 1:10.7 | It says, the president asserts the extraordinary power to we have in this initial opinion here. It says, |
| 1:11.5 | the president asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally imposed tariffs of unlimited |
| 1:16.3 | amount, duration, and scope in light of the breadth history and constitutional context of that |
| 1:21.5 | asserted authority. He must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it. |
| 1:26.6 | Meaning, if he wants to do it, he's got to show |
| 1:28.8 | that Congress has allowed him to do it. But they say AEPA, this emergency powers law, contains |
| 1:33.7 | no reference to tariffs or duties. The government points to no statute and with Congress use the |
| 1:39.7 | word regulate to authorize taxation. And until now, no president has ever read AIPA to confer such |
| 1:45.6 | powers. We claim no special competence in matters of economics or foreign affairs, but we claim |
| 1:50.5 | only as we must, the limited role assigned to us by Article III of the Constitution, fulfilling |
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