Bwaaaaah! Cato Institute - the date of the Court of International Trade's decision

[malaise]

is the real Liberation Day.

Statement from
@CatoInstitute
fellow Walter Olson: "This really *is* Liberation Day: The court's decision striking down these tariffs is a true triumph for the rule of law, human freedom, and prosperity, and a deserved rebuke for arbitrary one-man rule over our livelihoods..." /3

Link to tweet

The Cato effin institute.

[spooky3]

1. Wow! Guess they do have some principles after all

(Even if we might not agree with most of them).

[malaise]

6. Too many contradictions

but at least they have drawn a line

[Ruby the Liberal]

19. First reaction was that they are thinking ahead

to when the pendulum swings and the GOP is banished for a generation.

But I hope you're right. A little sanity never hurts.

[dalton99a]

2. More winning for King TACO

[malaise]

5. King TACO the

Tactless😀😀

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Good catch! It's true! . . . . nt

[malaise]

7. Good read here -Why has a US court blocked Donald Trump's tariffs - and can he get round it?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/why-has-a-us-court-blocked-donald-trumps-tariffs-and-can-he-get-round-it

The US Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled that Trump’s use of a sweeping presidential power – the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) – to justify his 2 April tariffs, as well as separate levies imposed on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, was wrong.

IEEPA is a 1977 act allowing the president to regulate commerce during a national emergency, without the need to go through Congress, and builds on the Trading With the Enemy Act introduced during the first world war.

However, the three-judge court panel ruled that the economic concerns cited by the White House to justify the tariff plans do not meet the required test of being “unusual and extraordinary threats”.

The judges had been nominated to the court by three presidents: Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama and Trump himself.

[dchill]

4. One fervently hopes.

[rubbersole]

8. Pardon me, but fuck the Cato Institute.

Too late to the party. They're still part of the problem.

[Skittles]

23. THANK YOU

THEY VERY MUCH HELPED TO CREATE THIS MONSTER.

[surfered]

9. Not sure this will cause many MAGA to jump ship, but still good to hear

Conservatives used to hate tariffs.

[Wicked Blue]

10. CATO TACO

[Martin68]

11. Nice!

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[spanone]

12. K&R

[ancianita]

13. Even Cato (co-founded by Chas Koch) is compelled to honor the US Constitution, though its

felon proxy tried to kill it. Cato speaks out of both sides of its mouth. It can serve privatization or it can serve democracy, but it can't serve both.

... abolishing most taxes, opposition to the Federal Reserve system and the Affordable Care Act, the privatization of numerous government agencies and programs including Social Security and the United States Postal Service, demilitarization of the police, open borders and adhering to a non-interventionist foreign policy...

According to the 2019 Global Go to Think Tank Index Report (revised June 2020, Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), Cato was number 20 in the "Top Think Tanks Worldwide" and number 13 in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States"... the Cato Institute is one of the "particularly crucial elements of the denial machine", that rejects global warming ...Cato contended in 2003 that the Constitution is not adequate to guarantee the protection of private property rights ...

[malaise]

14. You nailed it

That is why I posted this thread. It’s too much for them.

[ancianita]

21. So did you! Thanks for your post!

[Deminpenn]

18. They are a bastion of Libertarianism

Tariffs are taxes, their opposition to taxes is why they are applauding the Federal Trade Court's decision.

So, sometimes they are useful idiots.

[brakester]

20. FKin private

property rights! That's Koch's religion.

"Don't TOUCH my JUNK!

[ancianita]

22. Yep.

Worshippers of their property are under the evil spell of mammon, who they love more than "we the people" humanity.

As Pope Francis has said, "Selfishness is stupid."

[yorkster]

15. I'm glad the choice of that offensive name

appears to have bitten Trump in the arse.

[Warpy]

16. I didn't even know there was such a thing

but yu know King Addlepate and his billionaire buddies will fight this all the way to the USSC if somebody tells him the decision is binding.

The truth is that the fucking stupid slob is trying to rule by royal fiat, so just about everything he's done has been unconstitutional.

The sooner the courts knock the poop out of him, the better. Once he implodes, he'll lose interest completely.

[brakester]

17. Next we need "some court, law, organization"

to tackle crypto, DOJ's overreach on deportation and renderings, stolen elections, and the mass firing of the experts and workers in government agencies, etc.

The time for grousing, bad-mouthing, doom-scrolling and whining is OVER.

It is time for courageous action.

https://open.substack.com/pub/williamlmiller/p/how-to-stop-trump-republicans-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=336rc