Hi everyone!
Trump and the courts are going for tit for tat on nearly every directive from the executive office and yesterday a court in New York said they have "permanently" struck down Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs. These are the reciprocal tariffs levied by Trump in the Oval Office against nations specifically. The US Court of International Trade said he's now allowed to do it, that "the Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers." Congress, of course, has only passed two laws this year, and apparently has no intention of taking up any of Trump's proposed plans despite having a majority in both branches of Congress.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul took a victory lap over the ruling, saying "BREAKING: We sued the Trump Administration over their ridiculous tariff policy — and we WON! A tariff is just a backdoor tax. New York is fighting to stop these tariffs and put money back in your pocket." What she didn't say, the absolute fool, is that she's fighting hard for foreign countries to be able to exploit American consumers and undercut American workers. Congress does nothing, and when Trump does something he gets sued by his own governors.
Hochul should know better, she comes from upstate New York where one of the main industries is collecting insurance money after getting in a car wreck. America needs industry. America needs jobs. America does not need a bunch of cheap trash from China or expensive bags France makes in China and charges hundreds of dollars for, or fast fashion made in Southeast Asia that never fits right and falls apart in the first wash.
The White House already appealed the ruling, which affects national tariffs but not industry or material-specific tariffs with spokesman Kush Desai blasting the "unelected judges" for their bogus ruling. The three-judge panel said that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't give Trump the authority because imports, per those judges, do not threaten national security. The tariffs are working, but the judges don't care, their order makes it harder for Trump to get fair deals with negotiating nations.
What really strikes me about the ruling of the court is that they say, essentially, that they get to decide what constitutes an emergency. Judges didn't care about that all through the Biden years when manufactured crisis after manufactured crisis became the basis for all his nonsense decisions like getting rid of gas-powered cars (climate), racism (DEI), transphobia (a whole slew of gender garbage), Covid (every last one of the mandates restricting our freedoms of movement, speech, and religious practice).
Meanwhile, Rasmussen's latest shows 50% of Americans think the country is on the right track under Trump's leadership. In fact, leadership is what we've been lacking for these many years. The judges are not leaders and they aren't meant to be. Congress has continuously ceded the people's power to the executive and after years of both the White House and the courts telling Congress to get their act together, they have not at all. We the people didn't send them to Washington to go on Fox News and complain. We sent them to do a job, and where they continuously dither and wring their hands, Trump is trying to get sh*t done.
What do we need? Fair, unbiased energy regulations that are designed for prosperity and innovation not to solve global climate problems, trade policy that puts American workers first, educational institutions that are not focused on telling us how much America sucks, safe and secure transit systems, a country where we want to raise kids, a secure border, peace, prosperity, all the rest. Congress doesn't want to deliver. The judiciary just wants to stand in the way—when it's Trump leading, anyway, and not the Dems.
It was a strong move by the Trump administration to come out with all their big plans at once, knowing that the lawsuits would start flying. This gives the administration a little time to fight off each one through the appellate process. Tariffs, immigration, DEI, shrinking the size of government, shuttering the useless Department of Education, saying no to child sex changes—the executive branch is appealing on all of those. And it's not about executive power, which Congress gave up when they signed the Patriot Act, but about doing what the American people voted for in November.
Here's what's on my desk today:
Trump admin appeals trade court’s block on ‘liberation day’ tariffs
“Notice is hereby given that defendants appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from the Court’s opinion and final judgment of May 28, 2025.”
State Department to ‘aggressively revoke’ Chinese student visas over CCP connections, security in ‘critical fields’
“The US will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”
San Francisco students can graduate with FAILING grades under new ‘Grading for Equity’ guidelines
Students may submit assignments late, fail to attend class, or choose not to attend at all without consequence to their academic performance.
DC shooter Elias Rodriguez called for ‘genocide of white people’ in leaked text messages: report
Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of Israeli couple Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrime.