jerrymahoney

The guy yelling "People are going to die" during Senator Ernst's town hall reminds of the 2009 yell in a similar republican town hall meeting: “Keep your government hands off my Medicare,” by a speaker at a town hall meeting in Simpsonville, S.C., in July on the government-created Medicare program.

To Mr. Trump: While paying close attention to the activists or judges leftie, maybe pay better attention to those on the right Trump writes on TruthSocial: . Where do these initial three (CIT) Judges come from? How is it possible for them to have potentially done such damage to the United States of America? Is it purely a hatred of “TRUMP?” What other reason could it be? Of the 3 judges, one was appointed by Reagan and HE appointed the other Republican.

Trump complained MAY 30 on TruthSocial.com that some of his Judicial appointments from his first term are actually voting AGAINST him. The NERVE! and all some of you guys on here still want to talk about is Whatabout Hunter's laptop, HUH?

You mean these 'pathetic' people? In a reversal, Trump bashes Catholic conservative activist Leonard Leo President Donald Trump lambasted prominent conservative mega donor and Catholic, Leonard Leo, calling him a "sleazebag" and accusing Leo's Federalist Society of giving him “bad advice” on some judicial nominations. The attack marks a notable and unexpected shift in the president's relationship with Leo. Trump particularly turned to Leo, along with the Federalist Society, a conservative and libertarian organization focused on the legal system that Leo co-chairs, for recommendations on judicial appointments. The most prominent of those were Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, all of whom Trump appointed to the court during his first term in office. https://www.ncronline.org/news/reversal-trump-bashes-catholic-conservative-activist-leonard-leo

The Times (UK) 29 MAY via https://archive.ph/aFlK4#selection-1647.0-1679.262 Trump plots Supreme Court fight on tariff ruling by ‘activist judges’ The president has won a temporary Appeal Court stay on the judges’ decision that ‘liberation day’ levies were unlawful, and will now challenge the District Court \ “Ultimately the Supreme Court must put an end to this, for the sake of our constitution and our country,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said on Thursday. “Three judges of the US Court of International Trade … brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump, to stop him from carrying out the mandate that the American people gave him.” Leavitt said she was confident the president would triumph in the courtroom. “We’re going to fight them in court, and we’re going to win on the merits of these cases because we know we are acting within the president’s legal and executive authorities,” she said.

While Trump on Truth Social has complained of left wing activist judges, much of the current opposition on tariff cases is from right wing / libertarian interests who are and have for years been against the expansion of executive powers that they at least feel are properly the venue of congress. Headline 29MAY WSJ Editorial Board: President Trump Isn’t a Tariff King A sweeping trade court ruling puts the executive in his proper constitutional place. WSJ Headline 31 MAY Trump Championed Rulings That Are Now Being Used to Check His Power In tariff case and others, courts are finding the president’s expansive view of executive authority clashes with decisions that limit its reach

Trump cited a law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as the legal authority for his tariffs. The IEEPA requires the declaration of an "unusual and extraordinary" threat. They asked Hamilton whether there are any limits of a president's tariff power. "We have a national shortage of peanut butter. Can the president declare an extraordinary emergency?" U.S. District Judge Jane Restani * asked. "What you're saying is there's no limit." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-weigh-small-business-bid-block-trump-tariffs-2025-05-13/ * NB Ms. Restani is the President Reagan appointee.

While fielding questions from reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump was asked for his reaction to the now-viral Wall Street jab. "Oh, I chicken out? Isn't that nice? I've never heard that," Trump said. "You call that chickening out?" Trump asked, appearing visibly agitated by the question, which he called "nasty." "Don't ever say what you said," Trump told the reporter. "That's a nasty question." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lashes-viral-taco-trade-meme-stand/story?id=122323324

And for those who do not follow the apt reference in the OP:

REDUX:

The ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade is so wrong, and so political! Hopefully, the Supreme Court will reverse this horrible, Country threatening decision, QUICKLY and DECISIVELY. Radical Left Judges, together with some very bad people, are destroying America. Under this decision, Trillions of Dollars would be lost by our Country, money that will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. The President of the United States must be allowed to protect America against those that are doing it Economic and Financial harm. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114593880455063168

(Speaker) Johnson added that Congress must pass the package by July 4, especially given the mid-July "deadline" to address the debt limit to avoid a default.

So if the person who yelled out from the audience was a local Democratic, maybe he was a shill but not a paid outside shill, or in the now common parlance, a disrupter.

According to the NY Times, Sen. Ernst's comment was in response to someone yelling from the audience "People are going to die" following some of the Senator's comments on Medicare/Medicaid. -- doesn't say who was that person.

Butler County, Iowa, has a population of about 15,000 and in 2024 the voting was Candidate Total Votes % Votes Donald Trump (R) 5,784 72.1% Kamala Harris (D) 2,144 26.7% So if there were outsiders of any persuasion in the meeting with Sen. Ernst, the locals would know who they were.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/stephen-miller-calls-out-cnn-anchors-lazy-assumptions-about-trumps-executive-power Brown asked Miller whether he believes district judges should just "rubber stamp" whatever the Trump White House does, and if not, what checks and balances he thinks should be in place. "It’s not the job of a district court judge to perform an individual green light or red light on every single policy that the president takes as the head of the executive branch," Miller replied. "Just think about the premise baked into your question. Respectfully, Pam, you’re saying that when the American people elect a president of the United States of America…"

“The Supreme Court must put an end to this for the sake of our Constitution and our country,” said Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, who opened her Thursday briefing by attacking judges for having “brazenly abused their judicial power.”

There are companies both small and not so small that are dependent upon imports from China where there is no current alternative source. Some of the tariffs proposed would exceed their profit margins and I will presume, to them, this not all nonsense.

Ruling of the CIT Court now under adminstration appeal: The Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,” and to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.” U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cls. 1, 3. The question in the two cases before the court is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (“IEEPA”) delegates these powers to the President in the form of authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world. The court does not read IEEPA to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder.

May 14, 20252:05 AM GMT+7Updated 16 days ago Jeffrey Schwab *, a senior counsel at the Liberty Justice Center, which represented the business plaintiffs, told the (CIT) court that Mr. Trump’s position essentially would allow him to “impose tariffs on any country at any rate at any time, simply by declaring a national emergency.” The nonprofit has past ties to Richard Uihlein, who is an Illinois industrialist and a Republican megadonor. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-weigh-small-business-bid-block-trump-tariffs-2025-05-13/ * NB Schwab argued and won a US Supreme Court case against mandatory union membership fees.

As mentioning the Pensacola, FL case: No -- a suit by a right wing conservative legal firm with connection to Leonard Leo who orchestrated the appointment and confirmation of Trump's 3 Supreme Court appointments first term. jerrymahoney Posted May 7 https://aseannow.com/topic/1359961-its-already-getting-ugly-in-china/page/2/#comment-19786440

Per the tariff dustup ... or per the Gershwin song: They Can't Take That Away From Me (1937) ______________ Trump Says Tariffs Are the Most 'Beautiful Words to Me' in the Dictionary January 21st, 2025, 7:11 AM GMT+0700 President Donald Trump talks about tariffs at the Inauguration Day parade being held in the Capital One Arena. “I always say tariffs are the most beautiful words to me in the dictionary,” Trump says, adding God, religion and love are actually the first three in that order and then it’s tariffs. (Source: Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-01-21/trump-says-tariffs-are-most-beautiful-word-in-dictionary-video

You rang? White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, though, opened her briefing with a lengthy attack on the legal setbacks. She called it "judicial overreach" and called on the nation's highest court to step in. "These judges are threatening to undermine the credibility of the United States on the world stage," Leavitt said. "The administration has already filed an emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and an immediate administrative stay to strike down this egregious decision. But ultimately, the Supreme Court must put an end to this for the sake of our Constitution and our country." (my bold) <SKIP> Leavitt criticized the panel as "activist judges" despite its three members being appointed to the bench by three different presidents: Trump, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-slams-judges-ruled-trump-tariffs/story?id=122320787

Trump administration considers allowing tariffs of up to 15% for 150 days, WSJ reports By Reuters May 30, 20258:23 AM GMT+7Updated 2 hours ago May 29 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is considering a stopgap effort to impose tariffs on large parts of the global economy under an existing law that includes language allowing for tariffs of up to 15% for 150 days, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The administration has not made a final decision and it could wait to impose any plans after a federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily reinstated the most sweeping of Trump's tariffs following a trade court ruling to immediately block them, the report added. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-considers-allowing-tariffs-up-15-150-days-wsj-reports-2025-05-30/

Ms. Karoline Leavitt isn't an idiot just that her job requires her to sound like one.