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4. 'Wow': WSJ editors knife Trump administration's 'out-of-this-world' legal argument

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Wed Aug 13, 2025, 01:02 PM

Aug 13

trump's attorneys are claiming that the US is not able to repay the tariffs already collected and that holding trump's tariffs invalid will hurt the country, When trump's DOJ appealed the first ruling, the trump DOJ promised to refund the tariffs if these tariffs were held to be unconstitutional https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220354298

This letter is so sad that the WSJ had fun

'Wow': WSJ editors knife Trump administration's 'out-of-this-world' legal argument

www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-26...

Yes, it was an out of this world legal argument, or better put, no legal argument at all.

The document was posted on BlueSky this morning. It's under my timeline if interested.
— Jacki (@ftd1969.bsky.social) 2025-08-13T15:44:02.714Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-2673879888/

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board rebuked arguments that the Trump administration's lawyers made in court about his tariff policy in a new op-ed on Tuesday......

On Friday, Trump warned on Truth Social that if judges rule against his tariff policy, then a "1929-style" depression would occur in the U.S. The warning shocked the WSJ's editorial board.

"Wow. Ending a tax increase means depression. Who knew?" the editorial board wrote.

The board was also shocked to see Trump's lawyers repeat Trump's logic in court.

"That’s the out-of-this-world argument that Solicitor General John Sauer and Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate made this week in a letter to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit," the editorial reads in part. "The judges must give the President unilateral power to impose tariffs on any country at any time, or the end is nigh."

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