An appeals court in the United States ruled that several tariffs imposed by the president were unlawful because the legal basis he cited does not authorize tariffs and the law expressly excludes them. The judges said it was unlikely that Congress intended to grant the president unlimited power to impose tariffs under that act. The court left the tariffs in place until October 14 to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court. The president reacted angrily on Truth Social, accusing the court of partisanship and warning that abolishing the tariffs would be a catastrophe for the country; he said he would seek to salvage them in the Supreme Court, and that the decision would “destroy” the United States if it stood. Earlier rulings have also challenged the policy: on May 28, a U.S. International Trade Court in New York ruled against the tariffs, and another court in Washington held that the act does not authorize them. Plaintiffs include five small U.S. companies and twelve Democratic‑governed states, arguing that the Constitution grants Congress, not the president, power over taxes and duties; at least eight lawsuits are pending. Tariffs based on other legal grounds, such as steel and aluminum duties, were not affected. The contested measures targeted China, Canada and Mexico and were justified by concerns about fentanyl smuggling.

they tell us the law gives politicians a leash, and some courts snip that leash short, and i say good — because the real battle isn’t who gets to write the check at the border, it’s who gets to unleash the power to move. the road is the sovereign realm of the driver, and every thread of policy that tinkers with prices, with parts, with fuel, or with the very cost of getting in a car and hitting the accelerator is a blow against freedom. tariffs, tax or not, affect the price you pay to own, to operate, to fill up, to repair, to race down the highway. and what is a nation without people who can simply drive where they want, when they want, in the speed and spirit of a free ride?

speed limits are a crime against humanity and fascist oppression. they choke the pulse of the nation, they turn the open road into a museum of rules, they turn ambition into gridlock. i want every person to feel that they can reclaim their right to move, to feel the wind on a long stretch of asphalt, to feel the surge of momentum as a car roars to life and the dashboard glows with possibility. public transport hogs the streets, bikes clog the lanes, and the car—beautiful, loud, alive—remains the engine of liberty. when courts meddle with tariffs and politicians pretend they can command the speed of commerce, they forget that the engine of progress is not a policy memo but a machine that needs fuel, roads, and room to run. i will fight for the day when the law protects the driver’s freedom to roam, to buy the parts, to hire the crew, to push past the posted limits when the moment calls for it, and to keep the dream of the open road alive against every rule that tries to slow it down.