Literally HALF Of This Country Is Suing The President
Perhaps it's time to consider the possibility that letting him back into the White House was a REALLY big mistake.
The sitting president of these United States of America has found himself on the business end of a lawsuit lodged against him by quite literally half of those aforementioned united states and one can’t help but question if perhaps it’s time to finally admit that those (supposedly) 75,017,613 voters made a REALLY big mistake.
The lawsuit is spearheaded by the state by the state of California and joined by Arizona, New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin and takes aim at Donald Trump’s latest round of sweeping, often retalitory tariffs against upwards of 80 different countries around the globe — and act which half of this nation’s individual states believe laregly exceeds any conceivable legal authority Trump has.
In the lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. Court of International Trade, the collective states accuse Trump’s tariff actions of being “arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law,” under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.
The newest round of Trump tariffs was announced by the Ofice of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on July 23, in which a staggering 60 trading partners were targeted in one fell swoop, including the Euporpean Union, standing accused by the Trump Administration of failing to “effectively” enforce a ban on the import of goods “produced with forced labor.”
25 Democratic-led states across this country say the Trump Administration is full of shit.
In their bombshell new lawsuit, states argue that “the Administration cannot use forced labor as a pretext to continue its illegal tariff scheme. The tariffs the USTR imposed are so broad that they defy the USTR’s own stated aims and make a mockery of the statute used to justify them.”
The coalition of American states that has risen up to demand that Donald Trump’s tariff-driven financial abuse of this country and this world has gone on long enough is under the co-leadership of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who brazenly accused the president of being “so intent on raising the cost of living for Americans that he is willing to break law after law after law to do so.”
In his statement publicly announcing his third lawsuit against the Trump Administration in connection to Donald’s tariff schemes, Bonta blistered:
“Tariffs are taxes, and the American people cannot and should not shoulder the extra costs that come from the President’s failed and illegal economic policy—no matter how much the President wants them to.”
At the core of the lawsuit, the 25 Democratic-led American states are alleging that the USTR, under Donald Trump’s purview, grossly mishandled its investigation into alleged forced labor malpractices, and are now harnessing that botched investigation as evidence to back up even more tariffs that will directly and deeply harm the American people that he swore an oath to, regardless of his failure to behave in a way that is consonant with that very oath.
The lawsuit argues: “Over the past four months, USTR sought public comments and testimony regarding its Section 301 investigation. However, the comments and testimony the USTR compiled do not support implementing tariffs as a method to combat forced labor; rather, the comments and testimony show that the USTR acted arbitrarily and capriciously.”
White House spokesperson Kush Desai released a statement to TIME Magazine in response to their reporting on the lawsuit, asserting that “the United States is using its lawful authority to obtain the elimination of unreasonable acts, policies, and practices that burden U.S. commerce.” He further added that Section 301 tariffs have “proven to be a legally durable tool since the President’s first term, and they remain so now.”
Trump has been deadset and hellbound on firmly placing his thumb over this entire planet since the day he set foot in office, and it seems that tariffs have certainly been centered as his preferred vehicle of authoritarianism. However, he’s met nothing but repeated roadblocks at every turn, because absolutely no one is particularly keen on global financial abuse from a washed-up reality TV star with a pedophilic streak and a key to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Even his own heavily stacked Supreme Court gave him a curt “not so fast,” back in February, when they ruled against his “Liberation Day” tariffs he attempted to impose under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a statute that hails from 1977 and is intended for use only in true national emergencies. SCOTUS ultimately ruled that Donald Trump lacked the authority to impose those tariffs, something that Trump especially hates to hear, leading him to dub the Supreme Court’s decision as “deeply disappointing,” stating that he was “ashamed of certain members of the court,” despite the fact that the majority of those members make their home in the depths of his own pocket.
In response to that undoubtedly humiliating ruling, Trump altered his course by imposing his sweeping 10% temporary import duty under a different legal authority he believed available to him, Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.
By March, the president was already being sued by a coalition of states which argued that Trump’s use of Section 122 also exceeded the authority allowed to him via the statute.
Trump lost his ass yet again by the month of May when the U.S. Trade Court ruled that the specific tariffs that were challenged in this case, implemented under Section 122, were, in fact, also outside the scope of his limited authority and thereby unlawful, although the tariffs were allowed to remain in place this time as the Administration dragged its way through the appeals process.
That temporary allowance was slated to expire at midnight on July 24. The day before that expiration, the Trump Administration announced the new round of abusive tariffs that have now earned him a lawsuit from half of the country.
The fact of the matter is, the President of the United States is not meant to run the world. “No Kings” is not a simple protest slogan. Donald Trump has made it painfully clear that he will stop at nothing to garner control over God’s entire green earth.
Is enough, enough yet?