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      You can’t sue the federal government unless they give you explicit permission to. They have sovereign immunity except when they intentionally waive that immunity, such as with the Federal Tort Claims Act. You can challenge the constitutionality of a law or policy, fight to have it overturned, but you cannot seek repayment for damages caused by that law or policy without meeting the conditions under which the government has said you can.

      The FTCA is the primary mechanism to sue the fed and the allowances of it are pretty narrow. Tariffs, even illegal ones, would likely fall under the discretionary function exception, which would mean that you couldn’t sue. But even if it didn’t fall under that exception, in order to sue, you must first submit an FTCA claim for repayment of damages to the goverment and wait for their response. Claims must be made within 2 years of the damages and they have 6 months to respond. Only once actually denied can you actually sue, and it must be within 6 months of their response. And then you have to materially prove damages directly caused by the federal government, specifically.

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    Noticed that he wrote it so someone with a third grade reading comprehension level wouldn’t have a problem.

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    And the saber rattling gets even louder. Maybe one day they’ll think about unsheathing them.

    Though that will not be today.

    [set message to repeat 1x/day]

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    Ooooo, more political theater by the controlled opposition to deceive the proles and perpetuate the illusion of choice in order to prop up the regime of liberal-fascist collaboration.

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      Yes because some Dems are bad therefore all are equally bad, .ml and having the minds of children go hand in hand. Having this many stupid people in the country is so depressing.

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      We are like 12 hrs into this. I am happy to see there’s already numbers drawn up as if they’ve been planning for this. I’m sure this won’t be the last we hear

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        Judging by the responses we’ve seen to Donald on everything else, I am absolutely sure it’s the last we hear on it. Dems love sending sternly-worded letters and then pretending they did their job.

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    He’s ok but he’s still a billionaire and cousins with Epstein pedofile scum. I don’t think you can be a decent person and be a billionaire

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        Their whole point was that you cannot be a billionaire without being a criminal yourself.

        Ifsofacto, billionaires cannot be potential allies because that level of wealth hoarding is inemical to the interests of the many.

        When we say “eat the rich”, we dont mean some of them.