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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
"Liberation Day" is cancelled: Trump's global tariffs ruled illegal
A federal court ruled that Donald Trump overstepped his authority when he attempted to set unilateral 10% tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners. The U.S. Court of International Trade said that the president's emergency powers justification for the tariffs didn't pass muster, in a ruling issued on Wednesday. The three-judge panel objected to the Trump administration's argument that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act granted "unbounded tariff authority" to the executive branch. In their ruling, they called for a narrow reading of the act and the powers it grants. "The President's assertion of tariff-making authority in the instant case, unbounded as it is by any limitation in duration or scope, exceeds any tariff authority delegated to the President under IEEPA," they wrote. "The Worldwide and Retaliatory tariffs are thus ultra vires and contrary to law." White House spokesperson Kush Desai bashed the ruling, saying that Trump should be able to use "every lever of executive power to address this crisis." 'It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency,' he said. The ruling is merely the latest judicial hindrance to Trump's second-term agenda. The president lashed out at his foes in the judiciary on Memorial Day, calling them "USA-hating judges" in a post to Truth Social. "HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS... AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY," he wrote. "HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL."
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Judges reportedly eye new security measures as Trump's rhetorical attacks get worse
In the run-up to Election Day 2024, Donald Trump invested a fair amount of time in condemning those who criticize judges — as if his own rhetorical record didn't exist. Such criticisms, the Republican said in August, are 'probably illegal.' Two weeks later, he went a little further, adding that judicial criticisms should be 'illegal.' If that wasn't quite enough, Trump — who'd spent years publicly chastising judges — went so far as to declare, 'These people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges.' A lot has changed since then. In an all-caps Memorial Day screed posted to his social media platform, for example, the incumbent president condemned 'USA-hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick and very dangerous for our country.' The Republican went on to refer to unnamed judges as 'monsters who want our country to go to hell.' The inflammatory rhetoric was not a one-off; presidential comments like these have become quite common of late. In March, for example, Trump also wrote, 'Radical Left Judges could very well lead to the destruction of our Country! These people are Lunatics, who do not care, even a little bit, about the repercussions from their very dangerous and incorrect Decisions and Rulings. ... The danger is unparalleled!' Radical condemnations like these are creating a dangerous environment in which judges, and even their family members, are increasingly concerned about their personal safety. Reuters reported in March that U.S. marshals warned that federal judges are facing 'unusually high threat levels as tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts.' The good news is that federal judges already enjoy the protection of the U.S. Marshals Service. The bad news is that the U.S. Marshals Service reports to Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department — which currently answers to the same president who's accused federal judges of being 'monsters' and 'lunatics' who are creating existential risks for the nation. In April, The New York Times reported on a recent meeting of the Judicial Conference, which oversees the administration of the federal courts. The article noted, 'Behind closed doors at one session, Judge Richard J. Sullivan, the chairman of the conference's Committee on Judicial Security, raised a scenario that weeks before would have sounded like dystopian fiction, according to three officials familiar with the remarks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations: What if the White House were to withdraw the protections it provides to judges?' Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a related report: Amid rising tensions between the Trump administration and the judiciary, some federal judges are beginning to discuss the idea of managing their own armed security force. The notion came up in a series of closed-door meetings in early March, when a group of roughly 50 judges met in Washington for a semiannual meeting of the Judicial Conference, a policymaking body for the federal judiciary. There, members of a security committee spoke about threats emerging as President Trump stepped up criticism of those who rule against his policies. The reporting, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, echoed the Times' article, noted that some federal judges 'worried that Trump could order the marshals to stand down in retaliation for a decision that didn't go his way.' To that end, some jurists are reportedly weighing the possibility of the judiciary creating its own security force, while Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey is pushing new legislation that would shift control of the U.S. Marshals Service to the courts from the DOJ. A Justice Department spokesperson described these concerns as 'absurd.' That said, this is the same Justice Department led by a Trump loyalist who's also used highly provocative rhetoric related to the courts, including a recent interview in which the attorney general said judges who rule against Trump's agenda are 'deranged.' As part of the same conservative media appearance, Bondi even raised the prospect of arresting more judges. Given the circumstances, can you blame members of the judiciary for eyeing some systemic concerns? Judge John Coughenour of the Western District of Washington, who's had a SWAT team called on him, told the Journal that the proposal to move the Marshals under judiciary was a 'wonderful idea.' 'There's never been any reason in the 43 years that I've been on the bench to worry that the Marshals Service would do whatever was appropriate — until recent years,' Coughenour said. This article was originally published on
Mint
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Mint
Donald Trump slams ‘USA-halting judges' in fiery Memorial Day post — says they are letting criminals stay
On Memorial Day, US President Donald Trump posted a provocative message on Truth Social, blending holiday greetings with a scathing attack on his political opponents, immigration policy, and members of the judiciary. 'HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country,' Trump began, directing his ire at what he described as 'warped radical left minds.' Trump accused President Joe Biden's administration of facilitating mass illegal immigration and endangering national security by failing to secure the border. 'They allowed 21,000,000 million people to illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane,' Trump claimed, blaming an 'open border that only an incompetent president would approve.' He continued: ' on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world in our country so they can rob, murder, and rape again.' The President's post harshly criticised members of the judiciary, accusing them of enabling violence through ideological bias. 'All protected by these USA-hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick, and very dangerous for our country,' he wrote. Trump expressed hope that the US Supreme Court and other 'good and compassionate judges' would intervene, saying they 'will save us from the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell.' Despite the blistering rhetoric, Trump ended on a note of optimism, claiming progress over the past four months. 'Fear not, we have made great progress... and America will soon be safe and great again!' he declared. Trump closed his message with a repeat of his holiday greeting: 'Again, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, and GOD BLESS AMERICA!'
