EIR calls it again! This week’s issue of Executive Intelligence Review—with its cover story featuring “ex” Prince Andrew asking “The End of the Epstein Class?” released on the morning Andrew was arrested —includes a devastating demonstration of how President Donald Trump’s tariff policy has failed royally. It bluntly warned that “Trump Heads for a Cliff, with Powers Seized from Congress.”
Today, the Supreme Court ruled, 6 to 3, that the majority of the President’s tariffs, including his so-called “reciprocal tariffs,” are indeed unconstitutional. Trump had imposed, modified, and removed tariffs on countries, often openly stating he was doing so as a weapon of geopolitical warfare, on the spurious grounds of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) which allows the president to regulate imports when there is a national emergency.
That argument was rejected. Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the decision, put it simply: “the Framers [of the Constitution] did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch.” The Supreme Court upheld the Constitution’s separation of powers; the President is not above the Constitution. The political ramifications of the decision will be significant, even possibly empowering members of Congress to find the guts to finally make policy where the Constitution mandates they do so on matters of war, as well as economics!
An angry President Trump called a press conference three hours later. While denouncing the three conservatives on the Court who joined the three “liberal” judges in support of the decision as “unpatriotic,” “slimeballs” acting under the influence of “foreign interests,” Trump made a great show of how the policy will not change; the administration has already identified other grounds to impose tariffs; and the U.S. stock market will keep booming. He made clear that his administration intends years of court fights against paying back the rebates due U.S. companies for the tariffs now ruled unconstitutional which they paid.
