In this episode of "Desperation Leads Desperate People to Do Desperate Things"...

As is the case with everything President Donald Trump does or says, Democrats across the fruited plain continue to lose what little minds they have left (after nearly ten years of Trump Derangement Syndrome), over the president's sweeping tariffs initiative — particularly Trump's tit-for-tat tariff war with China. 

In the latest example, a coalition of 12 Democrat-governed states is suing to halt Trump's tariffs, arguing that only Congress has the authority to level tariffs. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade, claims the tariffs — many of which have yet to be effectuated — have injected massive uncertainty into the nation's economy.

While the uncertainty may or may not be true (I believe it will be, the longer the tariff war continues), the paramount question here is whether or not Democrat state attorneys general have the authority to sue Trump over his tariff agenda.

Noted Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz not only believes state attorneys general don't have the power; he also says the lawsuits are "such a stretch that they'll be laughed at." During an appearance on Newsmax TV on Thursday, Dershowitz blasted Democratic state attorneys general over their lawsuit, mocking it as “so far-fetched” it borders on laughable.

Dershowitz explained:

In some countries in the world, you don’t need standing. In Israel, for example, anybody can bring a lawsuit challenging the government. But in the United States, we have a constitutional requirement under Article 3 that there [must] be actual cases and controversies.

After explaining that in the U.S., plaintiffs must show a “distinct, particularized interest” in a case, Dershowitz revealed the major flaw in the AG lawsuits:

State attorney generals just have no particularized interest. They’re like anybody else in the United States. Tariffs are very complicated. Judges don’t have any basis for deciding whether they’re good or bad for the economy. That can be decided by legislatures if they decide to take over the issue or by elected executives, but not by appointed judges.

Host Greta Van Susteren asked Dershowitz if a state could successfully sue on behalf of its "devastated agriculture sector," to which he answered, "I don't think so," adding:

I think you’d have to have the farmers bringing the lawsuit, not the attorney general of the state. But even farmers would have a difficult time demonstrating that they were directly impacted in a way that was illegal by the tariffs.

When you have tariffs, some people are helped, some people are hurt. That’s the nature of the economy. There are winners, and there are losers. Trump ran for office promising that he would use tariffs, and he was elected. So I just don’t think there is standing to challenge this by virtually anybody.

But if anybody would have standing, it would be a particular person who may have been subject to the tariff who would otherwise be able to sell his product cheaper than he could sell it now. But this is such a stretch that I think they’re going to be laughed at.

You can watch the video clip here.

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Incidentally, while Trump continues to argue that tariff income to the Treasury would reduce the country's reliance on federal income taxes, given that U.S. importers pay tariffs — not foreign countries — and companies ultimately increase prices to consumers to cover their portion of the costs, if tariff income did replace income taxes (which is highly unlike), it would amount to paying inflated costs in place of taxes. 

Would that be a good idea? No. 

Why? Because lower-income people would pay the same increases as would higher-income people — in effect becoming the equivalent of a regressive tax. 

Finally, yes — tariffs used as a bargaining chip can be effective. Also, yes: The longer tariff (trade) wars continue, the worse they become. Why? Because long-term trade wars lead to inflation, without exception.

Editor's Note: President Trump is leading America into the "Golden Age" as Democrats try desperately to stop it.  

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