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malaise

(296,199 posts)
Sat Feb 21, 2026, 03:57 PM Feb 21

Serious question for DU's legal experts

Is there anyone or any institution who could have him arrested on. Tuesday night or at any other time?

Asking for a planet.

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Serious question for DU's legal experts (Original Post) malaise Feb 21 OP
;-{)..... Goonch Feb 21 #1
I'm wondering the same thing Greywing Feb 21 #2
The Supreme Court didn't say tariffs, per se, were illegal. Ms. Toad Feb 21 #5
I wouldn't advise him going anywhere near Europe! dickthegrouch Feb 21 #3
Rinse. Repeat. Marcuse Feb 21 #4
Depends on the statute of limitations, Bayard Feb 21 #6
I had the same thought. yellow dahlia Feb 22 #7

Greywing

(1,188 posts)
2. I'm wondering the same thing
Sat Feb 21, 2026, 04:08 PM
Feb 21

He and his administration are openly defying courts.

Supreme Court ruled on tariffs so he just says the ruling is wrong and says the tariffs will stay in place and then adds more based upon misinterpretation (I’m being kind in word selection) of another act of Congress. He is breaking the law.

Ms. Toad

(38,654 posts)
5. The Supreme Court didn't say tariffs, per se, were illegal.
Sat Feb 21, 2026, 04:52 PM
Feb 21

It said that the president couldn't use the law on which he based them (IEEPA) to impose tariffs.

There are other ways for the president to legally impose tariffs, at least on a temporary basis. He chose not to use those laws because the easiest to justify only allows the tariffs to be in place for 150 days before requiring congressional approval. He didn't want to risk congress rejecting the tariffs, so he took a legal gamble and lost.

So - first - all he has done since the decision is talk. Talk is not illegal. If he does impose tariffs under a different law, he isn't necessarily breaking the law by doing so. He isn't even defying Supreme Court.

yellow dahlia

(5,935 posts)
7. I had the same thought.
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 12:24 PM
Feb 22

It all seems too absurd.

Why can't he get arrested for? And then there is a long list.

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