Michael Steele on SCOTUS Tariffs Ruling: Trump, Like a Kid, Is ‘Mad at Some of His Playmates’

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STEELE: "He does, you know, like a kid who’s, you know, mad at some of some of his playmates. You know, he got up there and he scowled. And he, you know, he beat his breast because he has expectations. I mean, he references loyalty in the context of Supreme Court justices. Well, they’re not loyal to you. They’re not supposed to be loyal to you, except for the three who are loyal to you. And that was, you know, a profoundly disturbing moment in that, in that sense. Look, Nicole, I’m not going to sit here and think, oh, we’ve turned the corner on the Supreme Court. There are some still some really big decisions coming down the pike where this court could really, really disappoint, disappoint the hell out of a lot of people. When you get into voting rights, when you get into, you know, citizen birthright citizenship. So we’ll see what this this ruling means in the context of everything else that Trump has done to disrupt and destroy and undermine, I think, the very fabric of democracy. One last point that I want to make, though, at the top about this, was that when you’re looking at the opinions and there were myriad opinions that were woven into the overarching ruling by chief justice Justice Gorsuch, I thought in many respects highlighted and pointed the light on this subject directly where it belonged. And that was in the United States Congress. When he noted, it can be tempting to bypass Congress, but deliberation was the whole point of the of his design. Right? Something like this is supposed to go in front of the Congress, not to a president. You know, deliberation tempers impulse, right? It gives an outlet for that. The American people send elected representatives to the Congress to debate the big, the big and the small of tariffs, which our friend Stephanie Ruhle knows a lot about from an economic standpoint and how that plays out and what that may mean to constituencies. It’s not left to one person to decide, it’s not left to one group to decide. And I think that to me is the heart of this ruling. So at the bottom, at the bottom line, the Supreme Court said to the Congress, get off your butt and do your job."