Originally reported by Newsweek
President Trump didn’t mince words after the Supreme Court struck down his tariff authority, calling the institution “inept and embarrassing” and saying it “RANSACKED” America. The usual suspects clutched their pearls and screamed about norms. But here’s the thing: he’s right.
A 6-3 “conservative” majority — including three justices Trump himself appointed — just ruled that the president of the United States cannot use tariffs to protect American industry and American workers. Let that marinate. The justices that were supposed to be the firewall against the administrative state just became its greatest defenders, siding with multinational corporations over the American people.
Follow the Money
If you want to understand why the Supreme Court rules the way it does, don’t read the opinions. Read the donor lists. Read the amicus briefs filed by the Chamber of Commerce and every Fortune 500 company with a supply chain running through China. These corporations don’t care about the Constitution. They care about cheap labor and cheap goods, and they’ve spent decades building a legal infrastructure to make sure no president — not even one with a historic mandate — can touch their bottom line.
The court isn’t an independent judiciary. It’s a corporate board of directors in black robes. When the interests of multinational capital conflict with the interests of American workers, the court picks capital every single time and then wraps it in high-minded constitutional language that Georgetown law professors can cite at cocktail parties.
Three Justices Got It Right
Trump took to Truth Social to thank the three dissenting justices who actually understood what’s at stake. Those three understood that tariff authority has been a presidential power since the founding of the republic, and that stripping it away in the middle of an economic realignment is judicial activism of the highest order.
But the other six? They chose the globalist establishment over the voters. They chose Davos over Detroit. And they did it while wearing the conservative label like a costume.
The Real Constitutional Crisis
The media will tell you that Trump’s criticism of the court is the constitutional crisis. It’s not. The constitutional crisis is an unelected body of nine lawyers overriding the will of 75 million voters and the explicit trade policy of a democratically elected president — all to protect the profit margins of companies that don’t even manufacture in America anymore.
Trump called them “inept and embarrassing.” That’s generous. The Supreme Court has become a purchased institution, and until the American people demand reform, the corporate overlords who fund the legal establishment will continue to get exactly the rulings they pay for.