Trump sued over tariffs by obscure organization. Bringing a knife to a gunfight isn’t exactly your "A" game, is it Democrats?

Photo above - World headquarters of the Liberty Justice Center in Austin Texas. Not the whole building. They only have room 1250. Which could be just a mail drop.

Tariffs are finally getting their day in court. But it's not an important court which will be taken seriously. The “Liberty Justice Center” filed suit against President Trump in the “US Court of International Trade”. Yeah . . . I never heard of any of these, either. See links below.

The Liberty Justice Center is a nonprofit and had its 15 minutes of fame in the “Janus” case (2018). This overturned mandatory union due deductions for government employees. (Insert conservative applause track here). LJC is now litigating “Oswego School District” which seeks to ban transgendered men from girls' high school sports, and force them to compete in a separate "anyone can play" division. Apparently to protect the sanctity of biological female high school athletic records.

So the LJC isn't just some fly by night left wing nutjobs. But when you go to their website – or view their annual report – they don’t actually disclose how much money they spend, and where they get it. Hmmm . . . they do ask for donations on their website though. If you want to contact them, they're in room 1250 of the building at top.

Moving on - the US Court of International trade is actually in the constitution – Article 3. It's staffed by 9 judges appointed by the US president. Uh-oh. But wait – 5 of these judges were appointed by either Biden or Obama. Trump only has 3 judges. Over 60 cases have been filed in this court in 2025 alone. Evidently hundreds of cases are open, pending decision. The most recently filed case – other than Liberty Justice Center vs. Trump – is Fuzhou Hengli Paper Company v. the US on April 7th. I am not making this up.

So, it’s unlikely the court can dodge this Trump Tariff case by claiming it doesn’t have jurisdiction. It’s also unlikely that the case will be resolved before the next presidential election. Which is why I don’t take the suit seriously. If it WERE serious, then democrats of all persuasions would be crawling out of the woodwork seeking TV airtime to share their views on the case.

But no matter who wins, the case will then go to the appeals court – maybe a couple of them - before it reaches the US Supreme court. At which point everyone will have lost interest, and go “Huh? What was the question?”

I’m just sayin’ . . .

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

If you look at what they are involved in in the past this is a right wing think tank that Trump has run afoul of. He is even pissing right wingers already.

So no, Democrats would not run to the rescue of a right wing think tank just because a broken clock got it right this one time.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow i don't think its fair to characterize every organization that advocates for right to work and bathroom safety a "right wing think tank".

just as it's not fair to label marijuana legalization advocates as "narcotics dealers"

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SusanInFlorida Right to work is a euphemism for destroying unions and such policy ideas came out of the Tea Party, so yes it is right wing.

Not remotely the same thing. This outfit is an organization that pushes right wing policy positions. No less fair than calling the Heritage Foundation.

And define "bathroom safety."

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SusanInFlorida Another clue is the name. Every organization in the US that feels the need to put liberty in their name is almost exclusively right wing.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SusanInFlorida Nevermind. Looked it up. Bathroom safety is such a distortion as to make it a lie. They support right wing "bathroom bills" persecuting trans people. So yep. Very much right wing.

Avectoijesuismoi · 36-40

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow As far as the Bathroom safety thing goes I actually do not want anybody in the ladies either that wasn't born female as much as men don't want anybody that wasn't born male in the men's room either. Answer is build another bathroom.

As for the sports thing I agree if it is a for example a female 100 m sprint it is born Biologically girls only event and it should stay that way.

If you want make a event for the others as a specific category.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Avectoijesuismoi Fortunately other people's rights are not determined by your feelings. And how are you going to enforce that? Molest anyone coming into the bathroom? We already have videos of big burly male cops barging into the ladies room to "check" a female just because she was not conventionally attractive enough to fight some arbitrary case by case "standard".

And statistically those cops are the ones you need to worry about being a predator. Ditto with conservative church leaders who are behind this moral panic.

And this is not about fairness in sports. It is about persecuting a tiny minority instead of actually dealing with real problems.

And again, fortunately people's rights are not dictated by your feelings.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow its easy enough to "piss off" voters. just mess with their money.

1 - increase taxes (tariffs)

2 - crash the stock market

3 - create supply chain shortages of essential medicines with constantly changing import rules

apparently the federal government spending twice what it collects in taxes annually is NOT one of the things that pisses off voters.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SusanInFlorida You blindly support the guy who is putting tariffs on everything.

Ditto with crashing tghe stock market.

Weird how you call this out and turn around and cheerlead MAGA.

And that last statement requires a source. And deficits are just big numbers right wingers like to use to scare the uneducated. No countries do not operate like household finances.