Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
Source: The Guardian
Mon 7 Apr 2025 16.46 EDT
Last modified on Mon 7 Apr 2025 19.05 EDT
A libertarian group that has been funded by Leonard Leo and Charles Koch has mounted a legal challenge against Donald Trumps tariff regime, in a sign of spreading rightwing opposition to a policy that has sent international markets plummeting.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a suit against Trumps imposition of import tariffs on exports from China, arguing that doing so under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) which the president has invoked to justify the duties on nearly all countries is unlawful. The groups actions echo support given by four Republican senators last week for a Democratic amendment calling for the reversal of 25% tariffs imposed on Canada.
Last Wednesdays amendment passed with the support of Mitch McConnell, the former Republican Senate majority leader, and his fellow GOP members Rand Paul, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, who argued that tariffs on Canada would be economically harmful.
The action from the alliance has the potential to be even more emblematic, given its past backing from Koch, a billionaire industrialist, and Leo, a wealthy legal activist who advised Trump on the nomination of three conservative supreme court justices during his first presidency, which has given the court a 6-3 rightwing majority.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-tariffs-lawsuit
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no_hypocrisy
(54,127 posts)DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)"NOT IN MY BACK YARD"..........LOL
Under hypocrite in the dictionary, is a one word definition: Republicans
Lovie777
(21,580 posts)Chasstev365
(7,017 posts)YOU own the monster YOU created!
orangecrush
(28,084 posts)Initech
(107,245 posts)Deminpenn
(17,277 posts)not to mention SCOTUS. I'd say this lawsuit has a decent, maybe even good, chance of succeeding.
mwmisses4289
(3,106 posts)but it will ignore it, just like it has ignored all the other judgements that have gone against it.
PortTack
(35,810 posts)In fact Im going to wager that the law suit will be dropped because hes going to have to stop. Orange man cant go up against that kind of power and money
OverBurn
(1,287 posts)PortTack
(35,810 posts)You can bet the gop in congress will sit up and take notice! The message is stop this
.If you dont, all big money will stop for your reelection.
Id be willing to bet orange man will begin to spin and pull back. Hes toast if he doesnt. He cant go up against Leo and anger the far right
Hope22
(4,422 posts)FAFO!! At least they havent jammed you in a plane yet!
All of the traitor class need to be deported. Maybe launched into space on a cargo capsule.
Hope22
(4,422 posts)Wont be enough. Im good with life in a real prison.
BOSSHOG
(44,611 posts)orleans
(36,629 posts)Scrivener7
(58,151 posts)SharonAnn
(14,136 posts)Scrivener7
(58,151 posts)This is kind of awesome.
2naSalit
(99,712 posts)C_U_L8R
(48,795 posts)All his toilet paper depends on Canadian imports.
And again, Republicans never care until the bad shit happens to them.
Hey you idiots, try thinking ahead for once.
And stop supporting incompetent assholes, clowns and nazis.
Wicked Blue
(8,410 posts)... and they run out of toilet paper.
Passages
(3,986 posts)They're Not Tariffs, They're Sanctions
Stop trying to place coherence on a policy thats really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.
by David Dayen April 3, 2025
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/
Ford_Prefect
(8,501 posts)IbogaProject
(5,565 posts)Make a weak legal argument by a friendly team to get a SC ruling in the Turd Administration's favor. Whew I didn't consider that.
AllaN01Bear
(28,479 posts)
BigmanPigman
(54,534 posts)still makes me pissed off. I heard it again after watching a Ken Burns doc on Vietnam a few days ago and a short rant with 4-letter words was out of my mouth before I knew it. Good thing I live alone. If I had to control my profanity I would have had a heart attack 20 years ago since I need to swear to release anger and frustration.
Koch is a greedy monster and a traitor to the USA. How come no one asks daily, "Is he dead yet?" like we do with tRump?
Clouds Passing
(6,842 posts)JohnnyRingo
(20,422 posts)Republicans in Congress aren't supporting him (only) because they've lost their minds, they are in office because of donors like Koch.
Those funds can go to those who will impeach and charge with crimes. I imagine they will eventually sit him down and explain that to him.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)Putin and the NRA laundering hundreds of millions of Russian Oligarch Money through the NRA to "down ballot" Republican Candidates, not only Trump...........
Clouds Passing
(6,842 posts)shit show theyve caused. Kochs have been in with russia a long time.
bronxiteforever
(11,063 posts)less about humans in torture and enslave third world prison camps. These guys values are disgusting.
JohnnyRingo
(20,422 posts)Tax cuts mean little when the American consumer is skittish about spending money on your product.
Investors don't care as much about your deregulation if the stock market isn't delivering robust profits.
Soup lines and homeless Americans may be a Stephen Miller fantasy dream, but they make no one wealthy in a free market..
I expect to see a consortium of businesses take Trump aside and explain how they fund the campaigns of those who can impeach him and charge him with crimes against humanity,
WokeAintWhatIAm
(28 posts)They knew - they fucked up...
mcar
(45,599 posts)Deep State Witch
(12,537 posts)Do billionaires' faces taste better?
et tu
(2,387 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,939 posts)You, Mr. Trump, have screwed up.
Emile
(40,321 posts)🍿 🍿
Warpy
(114,363 posts)because it's a clash of the titans: old money vs. new, mainstream industry versus techies, east coast versus west coast, solid bank accounts versus a lot of fancy footwork involving accounting tri ks and maximum leverage to give the illusion of even greater wealth.
I've spent the last 19 years trying to get into a defensive position against both the free/unfair trade dinosaurs and the isolationist no-traders. We'll see how well I managed in about 10 years, if I'm unlucky enough to be alive.
sakabatou
(45,714 posts)SergeStorms
(19,906 posts)now SUFFER!
Hekate
(100,131 posts)PortTack
(35,810 posts)Karasu
(2,003 posts)JPK
(917 posts)Trump will have him arrested. Maybe a vaca in El Salvador.
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Karasu
(2,003 posts)4catsmom
(667 posts)what to think about him. Let me simplify: No matter how much support you give him he's going to screw you, and the more you support him and worse he's going to screw you.