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turbinetree

(26,994 posts)
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:05 PM Dec 22

Trump admin hit with $54 million lawsuit from major shoe company: report

By Erik De La Garza
Published December 22, 2025 8:48 PM ET

Colorado-based shoemaker Crocs, Inc. slapped the Trump administration with a $54 million lawsuit, claiming the president overstepped his authority with emergency tariffs that have cost the company hundreds of millions over the last two consecutive quarters.

The footwear giant filed the suit Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York City, naming U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Department of Treasury, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Denver Business Journal reported. Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, were also named in the action seeking $54 million in tariff refunds.

The lawsuit challenges the administration’s emergency tariffs, arguing that the law Trump cited in his April order does not authorize the president to levy tariffs and that the so-called national emergency was not a genuine emergency and did not involve an “unusual or extraordinary threat,” the lawsuit states, as per the Business Journal.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-lawsuit/

Good thing they /Crocs patent rights or he would try to name them after him.............

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Irish_Dem

(79,886 posts)
1. Trump loves it. American taxpayers pay for all legal bills related to his crimes.
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:15 PM
Dec 22

And any fines and penalties.

What does he care?

Irish_Dem

(79,886 posts)
3. He can commit any crime he wants.
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:20 PM
Dec 22

Courts let him off the hook, and taxpayer picks up the costs.

We pay for him to ruin the country, then we pay for damages and repair.

Trump walks away a trillionaire.

Celerity

(53,701 posts)
9. He wants to beat Musk to trillionaire status. As his 2nd term continues, the Trumpian grift is only going to grow worse.
Tue Dec 23, 2025, 05:27 AM
Dec 23

I can see (only half-joking) him seizing Greenland and claiming it (and thus its massive potential natural resources) as his own personal fiefdom. Trumpland.

ProfessorGAC

(75,859 posts)
4. It's Really About The Demand For Tariff Refunds
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:22 PM
Dec 22

Those funds, though they only represent 2% of federal revenue are their continuing sales pitch.
"Refunds to Americans", "Money for vets", "Lower taxes for the middle class", "Paying down the debt" were all promised from the debt.
It doesn't matter that none of that is possible with the amounts collected, but if that revenue ends up being refunded, there is nothing to sell.
The whole point was to sell a dumb idea, but if the collections drop to negligible, the whole sales pitch falls flat.
He's nothing more than a carnival barker & if there's no show he's got nothing.

surfered

(11,579 posts)
5. I love it except any award will end up paid by US taxpayers.
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:23 PM
Dec 22

If you include potential awards for failure to follow civil service protections in the firing of federal workers, we’re talking billions that Trump could cost us.

Irish_Dem

(79,886 posts)
6. Exactly what I am saying. We pay the bill for all of his crimes.
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:30 PM
Dec 22

All of his wrong doing and crimes benefited him in some way.

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