Trump Going to Get a ‘Kick in the Behind’ from SCOTUS on Tariffs
On Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) said President Donald Trump would be defeated by the Supreme Court in his tariff case.
Host Ari Melber said: “Your take on this hearing and is the White House wrong? Is this a tax? Is this a bad idea at this point?”
Markey said: “A revolution began in Massachusetts 250 years ago, and what the colonists were saying was no taxation without representation. We want to have a vote. We want our congressmen, our senators, to have a vote. We don’t want King George to decide what the tea tax is, what the stamp duty is. So that was the revolution, and now we are experiencing a latter-day revolution against Donald Trump’s attempt to illegally usurp power of Congress to tax.
He added: “I was there at the Supreme Court yesterday. I was sitting there, the arched eyebrows of some of the Republican-appointed justices, they were going so high they were hitting the ceiling, arched eyebrows. So the skepticism of the Republican solicitor general was absolute. No, it’s a tariff, which is a tax. Only Congress can impose taxes. Donald Trump has no legal right to do that. So he should be prepared to get a kick in the butt from the Supreme Court because it’s happening in the very near future.
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