Reminder: this lawsuit was brought by the Attorneys General of Democratic states.
Local elections are important, people! Never ever forget to vote in every primary, local election, and national election!
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
40 points (93.5% liked)
politics
28547 readers
1926 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Trumpist lawyer when a Democrat elected for competence rather than loyalty walks in the room:
I was curious how long they were going to drag their feet on this. It partially felt like they were waiting to see which way the political winds were blowing.
Now the question for all armchair pundits: what will this mean? Most likely the first thing will be stopping all future tariffs, which is good, but I have a feeling everything collected is going to become a sunk cost.
There will be further lawsuits for reimbursements for these unconstitutional tariffs. Costco already has one in the chamber.
Those reimbursements go to the importers, whereas the cost burden was on consumers, so really this has been a (successful) avenue for siphoning money from the poors to the rich.
I wouldn't be surprised if AGs bring suits to reimburse the people as well. I guess we'll see.
I don't even see how that'd be possible. Prices consumers paid were higher, but it wasn't (in most cases) directly paying the tariffs - it's just that the importer's costs were higher because of the imports, so they raised their prices, too. Figuring out exactly what the reimbursement should be to each individual consumer would be functionally impossible even if they did mandate it.
Some importers/companies tracked tariff costs (Ubiquiti) per item/order.
Some importers/companies ate the cost and shielded the consumer (Costco).
But I suspect you’re right in the vast majority of cases.
My predictions, in no order:
Economy becomes better as there's finally clarity on what the tariff policy is going forward. Also: no tariffs! This is big, because nobody could plan for the future at all when the policy was whatever Trump feels like that morning. Companies will probably get the tariffs refunded, and they'll pay themselves fat bonuses while continuing to upcharge consumers.
Europe/our other allies can see this as a sign stating that Trump's will is not the whole of the law, and he hasn't won the absolute power he craves. He can be restrained, at least a little. Freer trade means better relations when an orange lunatic isn't trying to gouge your country economically.
Trump's ego is hurt, so he's probably starting a war with Iran unless they give up their nuclear program. Khamenei is also a humiliation-adverse dictator, so a deal probably won't happen.
Epstein files get further and further from the public consciousness.
Also: no tariffs!
The ruling only applies to tariffs he justified with the 1977 Emergency Act; the rest remain in place.
Yep, probably should have said that Trump waking up, rolling some dice, and deciding tariff rates based on that is restrained
Free trade trust is burned. The USA can’t be trusted regardless of orange turdbag.
I will gladly admit that's partially my own wishful thinking. But hey, America is not a monolith, and that fucking moron isn't dictator yet.
The problem is a culture of money and corruption created this system that put him at the top, and quite scarily allowing him to stay there. He has done worse things than burned his Allies…and he’s still there.
It’s happed now. And it will happen again because the system has not changed. It’s bolder than ever.
This is as attempt to save Trump from himself moving towards the election.
Honestly yeah, Republicans not being allowed to burn their hands on the oven is good for them.
But with that said, it probably is good to have at least a little pushback on presidential authority right now