Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Is Secretly a Gift to Trump (2)

Feb. 20, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

President Donald Trump was quick to vent his anger at the Supreme Court’s rebuke of his use of emergency powers to impose the largest increase in US tariffs since the 1930s. At a press conference following today’s widely anticipated decision, the president called the justices who ruled against his duties “very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution.” Ahead of the ruling, which invalidated his use of a 1977 statute to roll out the import taxes responsible for almost two-thirds of the $200 billion in tariff revenue collected in 2025, Trump warned that curtailing his tariffing power would unleash an economic crisis akin to the 1929 crash. He ...

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