SherBeareth<p>💫</p><p>Always time for a new Digby. </p><p>The M.O. of the extremist Republican Party: find the lines, cross them, dare people to push them back. Courts have. So now the GOP is going after the courts,” I wrote ahead of the 2016 election. That was near prescient.</p><p>The U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday slapped down His Majesty’s tariffs as outside his authority. Whaddya figure? The ruling was unanimous.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TACO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TACO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Digby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Digby</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>trade</span></a> <br /><a href="https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/29/trump-tariffs-illegal/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digbysblog.net/2025/05/29/trum</span><span class="invisible">p-tariffs-illegal/</span></a></p>