The Supreme Court based the legality of Trump’s tariffs on the “Major Questions Doctrine” meaning Congress must use exceptionally clean language if it wants to restrict select powers of the executive branch. Tariffs are not mentioned in the Constitution, thus, if Congress wishes to create hand-picked powers they must specifically and preemptively do so. The MQD is a governmental creation inasmuch as no such rule/doctrine is listed or implied in the Constitution. In other words, since the laws covering tariffs were ambiguous and Congress had failed to specifically prohibit Trump’s tariffing, he had the duty to utilize tariffs as an economic measure to protect our economy, borders and foreign policy.
In addition, the Guilt Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Doctrine: There can be no guilt when ambiguous laws, rules, doctrines and words/terms that are not in the Constitution are reasonably doubtful.
Finally, SCOTUS ignored the Doctrine of the Lessor of Two Evils. The Court chose the greater evil: An attempt to put the genie back in the bottle by retroactively restricting POTUS tariff power to set foreign policy, reverse trade imbalances and halt illegal drugs importation. The lessor evil: Dismiss the case granting exceptional Executive Branch powers. Even SCOTUS ain’t perfect!
Chuck Klein, Columnist: American Free News Network
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