Companies that agree to build new US plants will face 20% tariffs during construction, which must be completed before #Trump leaves office [impossible]. The admin expects “the lion’s share” of patented drugs consumed by Americans to be produced in the #US.

#law #MafiaState #extortion #medicine #prescriptions #treatments #therapies #access #availability

#MafiaState

I’m all for lower drug prices, but this will hurt #patients most.

#Trump sets 100% #drug #tariffs on companies that haven’t lowered prices

Makers of patented #pharmaceuticals can escape the import tax by agreeing to join Trump’s “most favored nation” program to reduce US drug prices or by establishing new factories to serve the #US market….

#law #extortion #medicine #prescriptions #treatments #therapies #access #availability
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/02/tariffs-drugs-pharma-trump/

Trump sets 100% drug tariffs on companies that haven’t lowered prices

President Donald Trump took two actions Thursday to adjust his evolving tariff regime: a 100 percent tariff on some imported drugs and adjusting his levies on industrial metals.

The Washington Post

@xankarn

"It is dangerous and wildly wrong for a U.S. President to attend oral argument in a Supreme Court case."

It's typical #DonaldTrump #StochasticTerrorism

"I'm here, I know who you are, and I'm going to watch what you do and say very closely. Don't think for one second that I don't know exactly where you live. Or that my supporters don't know exactly where you live."

#Law #Intimidation #MafiaState #Immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Hypocrisy

Sauer, the admi’s lawyer, had a few minutes for rebuttal.

The justices heard arguments for more than two hours. #Trump left just over an hour into the session, after his lawyer wrapped up.

The argument is over. The justices will meet shortly to cast their tentative votes. The decision is likely to land in late June or early July.

#law #SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #hypocrisy

#ACLU atty Wang said that the legal focus should be on the newborn: “The question that the #14thAmendment asks is whether the #US born #child is subject to US jurisdiction when they’re born.”

#law #SCOTUS #intimidation #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #Trump #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #hypocrisy

If this case sounds familiar, that’s because because #SCOTUS has already ruled on one aspect of litigation over Trump’s executive order ending the guarantee of #BirthrightCitizenship.

But importantly, that case did not test the constitutionality of the order itself, as the one the justices are hearing Wednesday will. Essentially they passed the buck.

#law #intimidation #immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #Trump #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #hypocrisy

After more than an hour of arguments from the #Trump admin [Trump left as defense began], Cecillia Wang, a lawyer with the #ACLU, is presenting arguments on behalf of a class of people challenging the #ExecutiveOrder curtailing #BirthrightCitizenship. She is a birthright citizen herself.

#law #SCOTUS #intimidation #immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #hypocrisy

@Nonilex

"It is dangerous and wildly wrong for a U.S. President to attend oral argument in a Supreme Court case."

It's typical #DonaldTrump #StochasticTerrorism

"I'm here, I know who you are, and I'm going to watch what you do and say very closely. Don't think for one second that I don't know exactly where you live. Or that my supporters don't know exactly where you live."

#Law #Intimidation #MafiaState #Immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Hypocrisy

Many of the arguments in today’s case go back to the Supreme Court’s 1898 ruling in the case of Wong Kim Ark, which said a US born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.

In that ruling, Justice Horace Gray wrote that #14thAmendment “affirms the ancient & fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory. That, he wrote, is “including all children here born of resident aliens.”

#law #SCOTUS #intimidation #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #Constitution #Trump #MafiaState

Predictably, #ClarenceThomas sounds most open to the #Trump admin’s position.

Thomas recounts that the aim of the 14th amendment was to make citizens of the freed slaves. “How much of the debates around the 14 Amendment had anything to do with immigration?”

#law #SCOTUS #intimidation #MafiaState #BirthrightCitizenship #immigration #Constitution #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #hypocrisy