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Only if you ignore the explicit grant to Congress in Article 1 Section 8... You're trying to argue an implicit grant somehow trumps an explicit grant. > The Co
by rtkwe 8mo ago
Only if you ignore the explicit grant to Congress in Article 1 Section 8... You're trying to argue an implicit grant somehow trumps an explicit grant.
> The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises
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- k1ko 8mo agoIt's obviously not that simple. If we follow your logic then we would expect that no previous President was able to enact tariffs. We obviously know that to be false as Presidents in the past have enacted a wide range of tariffs.
- DangitBobby 8mo agoWe also know that in the past the constitution has been violated for political expedience.
- rtkwe 8mo agoThe argument the majority of the court went with in a few different forms is that a grant that goes against the constitutional grants needs to be explicit and IEEPA is not explicit.