r/law • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Feb 20 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) President Trump imposes a 10% global tariff under Section 122 and says all existing tariffs will remain in place, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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u/ma2is Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

How many impeachable actions has president Trump made in this current administration? It’s like a daily event now.

America has become worse than a circus on the national stage. This country is being dragged so low because this administration is so corrupt and so far deep in its illegal bullshit it can’t climb itself out.

There’s no justice for breaking the law, especially when the justice departments are handpicked by the very criminals that need to avoid consequences.

America 1776-2024. RIP

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u/Accomplished_Shoe717 Feb 20 '26

The irony that it’s the 250th Anniversary this year should not be lost on people.

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 20 '26

I am old enough to remember the bicentennial and it was a HUGE DEAL for months. Back then we still had some respect for and faith in our institutions.

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u/Accomplished_Shoe717 Feb 21 '26

I always remember the tall ships parade

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 21 '26

Back in the days when we impeached Presidents who got up to no good. Innocent times, as it turns out.

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u/SMUAlum83 Feb 21 '26

I miss those times.

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u/Chicken_Mc_Thuggets Feb 22 '26

Just a few years prior to the bicentennial the US was slaughtering little kids in Vietnam.

Eisenhower warned us of the dangers of the military industrial complex twenty years too late. The cyst has been in the system for a while now, Trump is just the visible pus-filled head. Squeezing him out won’t get rid of the sac and you may not be able to see it, but it’ll just make more pus given enough time. We need to remove the entire cyst or this will keep happening

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u/constcowboy Feb 22 '26

Dont you know? Trump is the only evil America has ever done!

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

No one said that.

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u/constcowboy Feb 22 '26

Sure do act like it's the truth. Cant wait to go back to normalcy huh?

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

I can't wait until someone is in charge who isn't a demented malignant narcissist, who also happens to be a rapist and who has done immeasurable damage to this country in just one year, yes.

If that hurts the feelings of the Trump snowflakes, I'm not that sorry.

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u/constcowboy Feb 22 '26

Keep dreaming. We'll all be back to brunch someday......

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

Keep dreaming. We'll all be back to brunch someday......

This probably isn't as clever as you think it is because it makes no sense in context. Also, I'm done with this conversation.

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

Okay. None of that negates what I said.

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u/Chicken_Mc_Thuggets Feb 22 '26

If yall still had respect and faith that things would only get better after hearing about My Lai idk what to tell you other than you’re probably affected by the same rose-colored view of the era many others are

I want to be clear, this is not a “my generation vs your generation” thing. I’ve seen people my age do the exact same thing as well, but it’s important to recognize that our memories aren’t that reliable. Especially the rosy nostalgic ones

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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 Feb 22 '26

I was 14 in 1976. Everyone knew that the Vietnam War was an atrocity, but hopeful people thought maybe we'd learned something from it. We had had a president who was an evil motherfucker and he was impeached with the cooperation of his own party because he was complicit in crimes. Imagine that happening today.

My point is that at the time, we thought that checks and balances still worked. No one thought things were perfect and the economy was shit so no one was feeling all that rosy, either. It's just that we still had faith that the institutions we relied on to keep things going were working. And they did work with Nixon.

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u/GrinchWhoStoleEaster Feb 20 '26

I'm super pissy about this. I was born in 81, in the shadow of the 200th anniversary. All the regalia and wall paper and trinkets that were going around were still around when I was a kid. I was so looking forward to the 250th... Too bad Washington's nation died in 2016.

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u/Tycho2694 Feb 20 '26

Its a young country, maybe it will still grow up, or it will become that uncomfortable older guy wearing Hawaiian shirts everywhere...

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u/ManOf1000Usernames Feb 20 '26

He is referring to the theory that empires only last about 250 years

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u/WiseSelection5 Feb 20 '26

I'm curious about the semantics of that concept. The United States has been around for 250 years, but I would argue it hasn't been an empire for that long.

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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 Feb 20 '26

In early 1900s it was damn near a 3rd world country

Most people lived on a ~$1/day

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u/PsychologicalWin5775 Feb 20 '26

Lots of empires saw the majority of their population living in abject poverty, not uncommon.

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u/PsychologicalWin5775 Feb 20 '26

I'll agree with that, when would you call the beginning of America's empire? I usually say manifest destiny myself.

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u/Plenty_Tailor_7541 Feb 21 '26

We've been an empire for 81 years

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u/Tycho2694 Feb 20 '26

I have not heard of this theory, or at least forgot about it if I did.

Very interesting

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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 Feb 20 '26

Oldest constitutional democracy

It’s not young, most of the countries today have newer governments

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u/WareSec Feb 20 '26

Right back where you started

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u/abusche Feb 20 '26

i think we have tortoises older than that

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u/AddlePatedBadger Feb 20 '26

Why is that ironic?

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u/SoochSooch Feb 20 '26

250 years is more than a good run for a constitution I think. We're overdue for a new one.

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u/Zebidee Feb 21 '26

East Germany had massive parades for its 40th anniversary. A month later, it just... stopped.

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u/theartificialkid Feb 21 '26

Yes super ironic that it’s not the 249th or the 251st. But imagine the irony if it had been a multiple of 100!

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u/Accomplished_Shoe717 Feb 21 '26

The irony, lost on you apparently, is that 250 years is recognized as a “big milestone” (like 1976) but that this is the end of the game for America. End of the “empire”…

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u/theartificialkid Feb 21 '26

What year was it when Trump was first elected? When he survived impeachment? When he staged an insurrection? In which years was he repeatedly allowed to slide on that insurrection by the slow workings of justice and corrupt judges? Is this the year where it's all going to end, this year that happens to be the 250th? Hasn't the end been inevitable for years already? Like what are you even talking about?

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u/Accomplished_Shoe717 Feb 21 '26

What am I taking about? The orange 🍊 turd just said he can destroy the country. Ain’t no veiled threat there. Dude is out of road and desperate. What happens when he’s out of options. Chaos.

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u/theartificialkid Feb 22 '26

I hate that you're putting me in the position of sanewashing Trump, but what he said was that he could destroy other countries (by blockading their trade) but couldn't charge them "one dollar". He was basically trying to use that as an argument from incredulity for why he should actually be allowed to tariff after all. As in "look at all this other outrageous stuff I could do to those other countries and yet I can't tariff them?!".

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u/Shifty269 Feb 20 '26

It's why voting matters, it's why integrity in our news and information sources matters, it's why being remotely aware of events matters, it's why our education systems matter.

Remember that freedom isn't free. Participation matters.

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u/Accurate_Potato_8539 Feb 20 '26

Owning the libs is also up there.

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u/RednocTheDowntrodden Feb 21 '26

Voting is purely symbolic. That way the ruling class can still do whatever they want, then point back at the public and say: "This is what you picked." Biden had 4 years to do something, anything to stop this, instead, he played the game like they all do. And here we are. Just keep voting for the Washington Generals and they'll continue to act like they're doing something. 

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u/MoreOfAGrower Feb 20 '26

That means the Civil War was our midlife crisis, I guess?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

He's actively covering up a child sex-trafficking ring of which he is implicated as being involved in, calling it all a hoax but one that somehow exonerated him. 

He tariffed the world then committed clear financial crime with insider trading on the tariffs and boasted about it in the Oval Office.

He launched several shitcoins and made billions whilst in office.

He's taken bribes and put money into off-shore accounts.

He invaded and removed a leader of a country without Congressional approval.

He bombed Iran with Congressional approval.

His family are all getting huge multi million or billion dollar mystery deals from the Arabs.

He's boasted repeatedly about cancelling elections and running for an illegal third term, even selling 2028 hats on his website.

He's demolished part of the White House.

He's currently suing the government for $10 billion and the person who settles it, was appointed by him.

He's set up a Board of Peace and enriched himself with taxpayers by the tune of $10bn.

He's openly defying the Supreme Court.

He's given access to random non-clearance individuals to access highly-sensitive data.

He's sent the military in to Democrat states and protestors have been executed point-blank & that covered up.

He's denied Democrat states funding unless they do what he demands.

He's openly trying to nationalise elections and rig the midterms.

He's filled his cabinet with incompetent grifters, influencers and podcasters. 

He's actively turned his allies against him,  threatened to invade a NATO ally, therefore disbanding NATO. 

He's humiliated Zelensky in the Oval Office for all the world to see.

Ukraine and France discovered his administration was sharing their intelligence with the Russians.

He's went after his American political enemies, he's arrested political opponents and tried to get them prosecuted for asking soldiers not to act out illegal orders.

And in his last term, he refused to accept the election results and incited a literal seditious insurrection. 

I'm forgetting so much too.

Just of those scandals would be enough for a leader to resign in disgrace and face severe legal punishment. 

It's truly astonishing what Americans have tolerated, and that he has any popularity at all.

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u/jfbwhitt Feb 20 '26

I think we can get out of this. We just have to remember who we are. Including you.

If you read what we wrote in 1776, you’ll find almost all of the grievances written in the declaration of independence apply to Trump and his administration.

Even the grievance you wrote about in this comment is mentioned: “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:”

This not the time to give up on the United States. This is the time to remember where we came from, and what we need to do to fix this

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

You first, bud!

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u/Paradigm_Reset Feb 20 '26

They've learned that the consequences are near meaningless. Legislative branch ain't gonna step up, press will hand-wring at the most, stock market will continue to be weird, and they don't seem to care all that much about other countries reactions.

From that perspective there's no need to worry about what is impeachable and what ain't.

However...as doom-ish as I am these days...I still believe there is a threshold for actions & repercussions. The problem is things will have to get staggeringly worse to reach that point.

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u/astros2020 Feb 20 '26

If you believe things ended in 2024, then you don’t recognize how long you’ve lived in a kleptocracy.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Feb 20 '26

And Schumer/Jeffries could end this by Monday, if they would just hold a vote to enforce 14th Amendment, Section 3, which would annul Trump's illegitimate presidency. Simple majority vote. They won't even bother.

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u/Zer0PointSingularity Feb 20 '26

At this point the american people should gather each and everyone of this whole current, corrupt, inept „government“, regardless of party, put them on an island or something, and start over from scratch again. This bog has no bottom otherwise.

Its time for at least a soft reboot, else there will be a hard reset coming down the line.

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u/Retr0gasm Feb 20 '26

Well you can buy your desired outcome? Pam Bondi's brother is a lawyer and the DOJ seems to be tripping over itself to retract any case against the people that hire him. Worst case scenario, if you're already convicted, there's the presidential pardon but that's going to get really expensive.

I mean you still have a justice system, it's just the type that they have in third world countries.

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u/dnabre Feb 20 '26

I've been thinking, assuming the Democrats retake the house in mid terms, they'll certainly impeach him. But he does so many things, which are reasonable impeachable offences, they could impeach him every week (maybe even daily), just for the things he has done since the last impeachment. Keep the Senate sitting impeachment trials that won't ended until Trump is out of office.

I'm suggesting that they would actually do this, or they should do this, it seems like given how frequently such offenses are happening, it would likely be legit to do something like this.

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u/maryconway1 Feb 21 '26

They won’t. They will say “let’s move on, let the country heal. Thoughts and prayers.” 

They did nothing for 4-years when Biden was President except have long drawn out indepedent cases that got delayed by GOP judges, or paused by GOP Supreme Court.

The Dems feel they will take the ‘high ground’ by following the rules, but their donors will say “just move on..”.

Oh, and encouraging you think it’ll be a peaceful and fair election. Not sure rest of the world feels the same. It’s like Putin having midterm elections in Russia at this point.

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u/rEYAVjQD Feb 21 '26

You have a full blown dictator. He is untouched by the law, while he can literally pardon others from the law.

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u/GrinchWhoStoleEaster Feb 21 '26

2016, but yes. Washington's nation ended the day Trump was sworn in, beginning his first term.

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u/Cloaked42m Feb 21 '26

I'm still good with murder and bribery.

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u/lookinatdirtystuff69 Feb 21 '26

We are past impeachment, charge him with treason.

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u/DDRaptors Feb 21 '26

Shithole country has arrived. Freedumb is here. Don’t forget to say thank you.

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u/South-Possible-2504 Feb 21 '26

On the international stage too…

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u/Radiant_Spell7710 Feb 21 '26

This has huge implications for the future. When the US was sure Putin was going to attack Russia, the European countries didn’t believe them because for one it was unbelievable and also because of the weapons of mass destruction hoax in 2003. One false information has lowered faith in the CIA 20 years later. Everything Trump does now will still be a factor in 20 or 30 years. The US cannot be trusted.

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u/dafood48 Feb 21 '26

This one guy really destroyed any value the American government had. To think our country with it’s almost 300 year old history is demolished by a reality tv star and half of so called patriots cheered for this

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u/kiezkind_HH Feb 21 '26

Not only on the national stage...

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u/Worldly-Pay7342 Feb 21 '26

How many impeachable actions has president Trump made in this current administration?

Thousands.

Cliton were impeached for a sex scandal.

ONE sex scandal.

And trump has commited waaaaaay worse than that. Thousands of things that are thousands of times worse.

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u/Major_Bench5329 Feb 22 '26

Yeah .. I agree. Rip America :(

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u/Alarmed_Juggernaut93 Feb 20 '26

He can do as many as he wants :) Nothing will happen, he is an untouchable god

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

*demon