Trump rages at Supreme Court for tariff ruling

“That’s right, the US Supreme Court cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars – all they needed was a sentence and they didn’t care,” Trump said. “They couldn’t care less.”

“And they make me sick,” Trump said, referring to Gorsuch and Barrett.

“They bother me because they’re bad for our country,” Trump added.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s other appointee to the high court, dissented along with two fellow conservatives, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

The majority, their The decision in the case known as Learning Resources Inc. v. TrumpHe said on Feb. 20 that a president does not have the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on imports from most countries under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as Trump has claimed.

“By relying on two words (‘regulation’ and ‘import’) separated by 16 other words in IEEPA Section 1702(a)(1)(B), the President asserts that he has independent authority to impose tariffs on imports from any country, on any product, at any rate, for any period of time,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority decision.

“These words cannot bear this much weight,” wrote Roberts, who, like Gorusch and Barrett, is a conservative.

Since the decision, the Trump administration has moved to offset the revenue the U.S. government would have collected had the IEEPA tariffs been approved.

On February 20, Trump invoked Section 122 of the Trade Act to impose a 10% global tariff on imports; but these duties will last only 150 days unless Congress approves an extension.

Earlier this month, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s office launched trade investigations into nearly 80 countries and economies under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act, including China, Japan, India, Mexico and the European Union.

Section 301 allows the United States to impose tariffs on imports from countries found to engage in unfair trade practices.