a right wing koch backed orginization just sued to stop the tariffs

[moonshinegnomie]

the new civil liberties alliance has sued to stop the tariffs saying that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act he used for his tariffs doesnt allow it

https://nclalegal.org/press_release/ncla-sues-to-stop-trump-admin-from-imposing-emergency-tariffs-that-congress-never-authorized/

[hlthe2b]

1. Good heavens--the Koch family ('think the bros are no longer) is doing something "good?"

[ananda]

2. These are strange times indeed.

Very strange.

[moonshinegnomie]

4. not only them but Leonard Leo too

hes teh person most responsible for trying to stack teh judiciary with right wing partisans

[MLAA]

12. I doubt it, they must think the tariffs will hurt their businesses.

[Wiz Imp]

40. Of course they do. And they're right. They're not total morons like Trump.

They know what happened with Smoot-Hawley in 1930

[CountAllVotes]

53. Maga relative

She is a baby machine pushing 40.

She has no idea who McKinley was. She spells his name "McKinnley".

Who will pay the bills with six little kids? The high school educated father?

Worry not little dear, Jesus will save your sorry ass!

These people live and die the MAGA world. Being most are unable to read/write properly, plagiarism is their best friend.

These are the ones running up the big bills, it sure is not me.

Is my $23 in food stamps there today?

& recommend.

[FoxNewsSucks]

25. Absolutely NOT

It only means it affects them, and their lawsuit probably is only to get their own business's exempted.

They're still evil fucks, and always will be

[hlthe2b]

46. I NEVER said it was INTENTIONAL. But, it can have good results in the long term as a side effect.

[Meadowoak]

26. Not really, just trying to protect their own interests.

They must have done the math, and found out that their wealth comes from the bottom, up. And when people at the bottom aren't/can't buying, it effects those at the top.

[Katcat]

31. Eh

They must be losing money because they don’t care US or us

[Cherokee100]

32. Don't trust

Don t trust those greedy leeches.

[hlthe2b]

47. You are new to DU. Having been here since 2001, I can assure you few here would...

A byproduct or an act-- quite accidental--may produce some good.

[rich7862]

42. The Koch family now knows he is a violent mad man. They thought they control turd with their money.

the turd has stolen so much money from every avenue and department of our government, Trump does not need the oligarchies money any more.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Suing Trump to save Trump from Trump.

This is boomerang litigation.

[Cha]

18. imo Mump doesn't want "saving".. they answer to Putin.

[BootinUp]

5. I won't be surprised if this lawsuit figures prominently in Trumpos future. nt

[lindysalsagal]

6. I knew big business wasn't going to let maga scorch-earth the world

He's getting stopped at every turn. Now we need the federal scientists reinstated before rfk causes another pandemic.

[Pinback]

28. Correct. Pandemics are bad for business, too. (nt)

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. The Kochs also help fund the Heritage Foundation.

Playing both ends against the middle, or "let's you and him fight?"

[FalloutShelter]

8. Who knew...DUH...

Bad-For-Business.

[Ferryboat]

13. Koch financed Heritage from the beginning

If they are suing, it shows they have lost control of their own creation.

Wet dream came true with unintended consequences.

[johnnyfins]

15. THIS THIS THIS

[paleotn]

21. I think you've got them perfectly.

[valleyrogue]

23. It was Joseph Coors who co-founded the Heritage Foundation and started the seed money.

Paul Weyrich and Edwin Feulner were the other founders. When it comes to the filthy rich, they are all pretty much interchangeable.

[DENVERPOPS]

33. Good ol' Joseph Coor Senior ????

Grandpa Coors and all his buddies, dressed in White Robes and Hoods, would assemble on the last Sunday? of every month on the top of Table Top Mountain, right beside the Adolph Coors beer plant....They would erect a giant 20' tall, wooden cross on the mountain, late in the afternoon, and light it on fire at dusk.......You could see it from all over Denver........."Just a warning"..........
Coors had a policy of restricting employees to white only until the mid? 70's. Including not only Blacks, but Mexicans too....

Most Coloradans in the 70's couldn't understand why the rest of the nation loved coors beer............to us, it just tasted like piss.
Until a year or two ago, they still falsely advertised on every can "Brewed With Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water" which was the best joke of all !!!!!!!!!!!!! They didn't have a spring. Their source of water was Clear Creek, one of the most polluted streams in Colorado. All the run off from the snow/rain in the mountains trickled down through the old mine tailings every where around Idaho Springs. Better than that, there were a noteable number of small towns who discharged their waste water into the Creek above Coor's take out point for their beer.....

[Deuxcents]

35. Coors wasn't sold east of the Mississippi so naturally, people wanted what they couldn't have

I remember when guys I worked with came back from vacation out west and brought back a case or two of it..a big deal. When I finally got out there I thought Olympia beer was a lot better but it wasn’t sold in the south, either. Smart marketing strategy on Coors’ part to pent up demand for their beer

[DENVERPOPS]

38. At the time

Coors wouldn't sell anywhere but in Colorado......A few years later, they decided to open their first distributorship and a close friend of mine bought it, and opened it in Bozeman Montana.

President Ford would spend a lot of time in Vail, and would take home a bunch of cases of Coors on his way back to DC.

[valleyrogue]

41. Yep, the old crackpot who died in 2003.

It was real trendy to drink Coors back in the seventies. I didn't drink beer because it made me sick.

Coors, both him and the beer, should have stayed in Colorado.

[DENVERPOPS]

50. I seem to recall

one of his sons got kidnapped and murdered.........I will have to see if I can find something about it

[valleyrogue]

54. I believe it was his brother.

He was kidnapped and murdered around 1960.

[DENVERPOPS]

55. Yea, he was a "Coor's" third generation

a grandson.....It's all described in Wiki...............

[dchill]

34. Fire BAD!

[Keepthesoulalive]

9. If they are getting involved

They fear financial loss, no altruism involved. This is very bad but they can stop the hemorrhaging.

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[spanone]

11. K&R

[Hassler]

14. Koch is angling for a tariff exception. And he'll get it.

We are in the grift part of Kraznov's predictable pattern: Create an emergency, Grift for money, Declare the emergency solved, Bask in his brilliant victory, Repeat.

[valleyrogue]

44. Charles Koch is 89 years old with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

If he is fairly cogent, he might be worried about what is left of his fortune when he finally kicks the bucket. His "legacy" of libertarian insanity (I know, redundant) may not outlive him.

[Tickle]

48. 😂 loved your first line 😀 NT

[58Sunliner]

16. Interesting. Don't they want to kiss the ring?

[paleotn]

24. The monster burst out of the lab and is now running amok.

Like German industrialists thought they could control Hitler he'd kiss THIER ring. Didn't happen that way. Same here. History is rhyming again.

[Initech]

17. Gee, ya think they might have been an extremely terrible idea?

[FirstLight]

19. Bahaha!;! 😆

It's starting..!!

I just saw another thread where somebody asked how long it'll be before the bastard is removed by his own fucking party lol. You know I've got very few stocks so if I lose money it's usually only about 200 bucks maybe 300 in a bad day.. you think about how many stocks these fuckers own LMAO

Entire companies are going to bite the dust if he doesn't resend these tariffs. I doubt and that all of the rich people are making money on these deals. I'm sure there's plenty of people that are going to lose their shirts and they're coming for him ...😆😆😆

[valleyrogue]

45. The Ids of March are a bit late,

but the knives are being sharpened as we write these posts.

[orangecrush]

20. K&R

[xuplate]

22. Whoa

So pigs really can fly.

[paleotn]

27. More Dr. Frankenstein imitations.

Who knew the monster they help create would get loose and start trashing the place?! Turns out, the monster has his own agenda and it's a little different from theirs. Donny's making them kiss his ring. Wasn't supposed to work that way and they're pissed about it. Otherwise, they'd just have a chat and get an "exemption." No need for a lawsuit unless Donny isn't playing like he was supposed play.

[russiamommy]

29. Even a broken clock is right twice a day

I’ve been working with IEEPA for nearly 40 years. They are right on the law. Hopefully more companies will jump on the bandwagon here.

[dweller]

30. What a hoot

If the 1% are the ones who will break out the torches and pitchforks … riot in the streets and cause the insurrection act to happen … then get themselves shipped to El Salvador prisons

🫤



✌🏻

[Figarosmom]

36. I think the koch

Lawyers know more about the law than trumps lawyers.

[moonshinegnomie]

39. a squirrel knows more about the law than his lawyers

[Jit423]

37. Just cant make this stuff up.

A circular fuck-fest is taking place within the Love-Trump-MAGA community.

[Wiz Imp]

43. If this group has standing to sue, I believe they will win, at least in the lower courts

From the article:

Under art. 1, § 8 of the Constitution, Congress has sole authority to control tariffs, which it has done by passing detailed tariff statutes. The President cannot bypass those statutes by invoking “emergency” authority in another statute that does not mention tariffs.

This is 100% accurate and lower courts should rule as such. However, I will not even try to predict how the Supreme Court would rule on this issue.

[ScratchCat]

52. Exactly

This really shouldn't even be happening because Congress should have already shut him down.

[NNadir]

49. Fafo assholes.

[Scrivener7]

51. Dr. Frankenstein, clean-up in aisle three!