SCOTUS appears poised to overturn trump tariffs (siding with RGF)

While the national elections Tuesday in New Jersey, Virginia, and a handful of other states weren’t especially likely to go well there is no doubt that economic issues remain of concern to voters. Trump’s erratic tariff policies have done significant harm to the economy and RGF opposes tariffs because they ARE taxes. But, whether you support higher tariffs or not it is RGF’s view that Congress MUST be the policymaking arm of the US government that makes tariff policies, not the president (of either party) acting unilaterally.

That is why RGF signed on to this amicus brief arguing that Congress, not the President has the power to levy tariffs or change tariff policies. Click on the brief below to read the brief for yourself. All indications from the Supreme Court’s hearings on this case which took place this week indicate that the Court indicate that is skeptical of the case for unilateral tariffs.