Jen Psaki
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209 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 6 May
Jen Psaki’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They are all blocked by this federal court decision.
It comes out of the United States Court of International Trade, which is a specialized court you may or may not have ever heard of, but it deals specifically with trade issues.
A three-judge panel consisting of one Reagan appointee, one Obama appointee, and crucially and importantly, one Trump appointee ruled unanimously that Trump's trade war is essentially illegal, that he does not have the authority to enact these sweeping tariffs on his own.
When Trump signed the executive order enacting these tariffs, he cited something called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a law that gives the president the authority to use tariffs in times of national emergency.
The court does not read the law to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenge tariffs imposed thereunder.
The law does not grant tariff authority to the president simply when he finds or determines that an unusual and extraordinary threat exists.
I sense a little snark there.
I appreciate it.
But man, when you put it that way, it all kind of makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
I mean, I'm not an expert in international trade law, but Trump's justifications for these tariffs have always been pretty thin.
For starters, today, Donald Trump made his most explicit comments yet about his openness to deporting American citizens.
And yes, his intention is to scare you.
And yeah, the things he's saying are scary.
I'm not going to minimize that.
But his comments are also a reminder that aspiring dictators, of which he is one, who threaten to deport their own citizens, are not speaking from a position of strength.
They are speaking from a position of weakness.
And the cracks are showing all over the place right now.
And so tonight, I actually wanted to start in one of the places where the cracks are the biggest and most obvious.
And that's the economy.
There you go.
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