LegalEagle

Yes, this is what all of my texts look like. So what.

Man, I really need to find my Tariffs Not Only Impose Immense Economic Costs but Also Fail to Achieve Their Primary Policy Aims and Foster Political Dysfunction Along the Way t-shirt.

I’m losing my mind on tariffs. We spent 90 years systematically dismantling protectionism (GATT, WTO, NAFTA) and a mad king exercising *extremely* dubious delegated authority just set us back a century by fiat.

I'm just so sad for this country.

Feeling pretty good about my decision to put solar on my roof and get an electric car.

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

Let me tell you, you haven't lived until you've litigated against a pro se plaintiff who refuses to get a lawyer and only corresponds via overlong chatGPT-drafted missives which often include devastating admissions.

I'd estimate that import businesses probably have until close of business to import as much as they possibly can before Trump imposes more illegal tariffs.

The first part is definitely true; refunds will probably be a mess. But did the US actually make any real, actually-papered and ratified trade deals? I remember a bunch of words but I don't recall anything solid.

I'm a law guy, not a politics knower, but "Trump illegally taxed/stole $175 billion from Americans" seems like good messaging.

HUGE open questions about what happens to the billions already collected and whether Trump will try an end run around the opinion (like calling all the tariffs "licenses") or under another statute.

Well look at that, SCOTUS finally agrees that the monstrously illegal tariffs are, in fact, illegal.

This is made more complicated by the fact that this is a JAG lawyer standing in for the DOJ (because most of the AUSAs quit). He was ordered to be a SAUSA, which means saying "I won't do this anymore" is a direct refusal to obey an order, which can trigger a court-martial or other discipline.

"Replace one word of this title with [thing]" is the Cards Against Humanity of posting. (extreme pejorative)