Once upon a time, the Republican Party could be reliably counted on to oppose tax increases and at least sometimes oppose executive overreach. In the case of President Trump’s massive tax increases on consumers and businesses importing goods from abroad, we have seen the GOP reduced to silence or gibberish.

On Friday, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that most Trump’s tax hikes exceed his authority.

The Trump administration has relied upon the International Emergency Economic Powers Act from 1977 to claim broad authority to impose tax increases on imports.

The “emergency” cited to justify this is the supposed “emergency” of Americans buying more from other countries than other countries buying from the United States.

It apparently hasn’t occurred to the president that America

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