When is a conservative NOT a conservative? When his name is Supreme Court Justice John Roberts

The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a brutal takedown of President Donald Trump’s signature economic policy, ruling that he overstepped his authority to impose widespread tariffs on countries around the globe.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-humiliates-trump-with-brutal-tariffs-verdict/

NOW we are effed.

Photo above from Mother Jones.

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ineedadrink · 56-60, M

The Supreme Court is supposed to be the guardians of the constitution, not any particular politician's agenda.

4meAndyou · F

@ineedadrink Very true. But there was a bit of disagreement regarding the ruling.

"Justice Brett Kavanaugh called the Supreme Court’s decision striking down Trump’s emergency tariffs "illogical" in a fiery dissent on Friday and offered a roadmap of alternatives for Trump to attempt to carry out his signature economic policy.

Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, said the 6-3 majority cherry-picked ways in which Trump could regulate imports under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, making what he said was a textualist case that the law already allows similar forms of regulation on imports, including quotas and embargoes. Tariffs are not just in the same category as those but are a "far more modest" alternative to them, Kavanaugh said.

"If quotas and embargoes are a means to regulate importation, how are tariffs not a means to regulate importation? Nothing in the text supports such an illogical distinction," Kavanaugh wrote."

SilverF0x · 51-55, M

@4meAndyou I found this interesting. Neil Gorsuch explains why he voted against tariffs.

https://reason.com/2026/02/20/gorsuch-blasts-thomas-alito-and-kavanaugh-for-favoring-trumps-illegal-tariffs/