Simon Johnson
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295 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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an opinion on the merits of the case.
So I was opining on, for example, Donald Trump's original 2025 tariffs along the lines of, do they make sense economically, but also are they legal?
Because the legal justification of those tariffs was based on a particular statement of economic circumstances.
Congress said, if these economic circumstances exist, then the president can do the following.
And we were arguing that actually those circumstances didn't exist.
And it was quite gratifying to see that the chief justice of the US Supreme Court, when he ruled against the tariffs, or he was on the side, the majority that ruled against it, used a lot of our points and arguments without, I would say, saying he got them from us.
But that's totally fine.
That's how it works.
Donald Trump put his name on the Kennedy Center.
So it's the Kennedy Trump and Kennedy Center or vice versa.
And a court just ruled last week that he had to take his name down.
So they took it down as far as anyone can see, but they put a big tarpaulin over it.
So you can't see that it's been taken down.
So, you know, there are these fine edges that are emerging here.
But the court didn't say take the talpolin down.
They said take the name down.
So, you know, this is where it is.
And I think we'll see what happens to the judicial system.
We'll see what the Supreme Court says.
And of course, historically in the U.S., there have been some big confrontations over power and access and power.
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