Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Keith Adams, and at 4.30 hours GMT on Saturday 21st February, these are our main stories. Donald Trump outlines new plans to keep some global trade tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down most of his existing levies as illegal. The family of a Palestinian-American teenager killed by a Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank call for accountability for his death. Also in this podcast, a British minister says the government is considering introducing legislation to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the Royal Line of Succession. What does it mean for Commonwealth countries who share the British royal family and name things after them?
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Donald Trump has called tariffs the most beautiful word in the dictionary, and they've been a powerful tool in his arsenal. So he was furious when the US Supreme Court struck down his sweeping trade tariffs policy. The judges decided, six to three, that the president's decision to introduce levies under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was unlawful. President Trump had himself appointed two of the judges who ruled the tariffs should have been approved by Congress. At a press conference, he called those who voted against him fools and lapdogs.
The Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs... is deeply disappointing. And I'm ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed, for not having the courage to do what's right for our country.
Foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years are ecstatic. They're so happy. And they're dancing in the streets, but they won't be dancing for long. That I can assure you.
President Trump went on to announce a new 10% global tariff through a different law to replace the ones struck down by the court. The Democrat Chuck Schumer said keeping tariffs in place will upset many Americans.
Glaringly, amazingly, a vital and important point is missing from the president's speech, that his tariffs have dramatically increased costs on American families. Costs of so many things have gone up because of these tariffs, and the American people hate the tariffs because it's increased their costs.
The case in the Supreme Court, called Learning Resources v. Trump, was first brought to lower courts by a US company who sell educational toys, importing products from China. The chief executive, Rick Waldenberg, told us he felt vindicated by the ruling.
We challenged the IEPA tariffs as unlawful, an unlawful tax, and the Supreme Court seemingly adopted our arguments we made in our complaint back in April, which is exciting. The case also is a vindication of the principles of rule of law, where the law applies equally to everybody. And so I'm a citizen, Mr. Trump's a citizen, there's one law. We challenged the way the law was being applied, and in this case, the little guy won.
While the president has outlined a new plan to retain some of his global tariffs, our correspondent in Washington, Simi Jolaosho, told us what's next for the Trump administration.
He's introduced this 10% global tariff using a different authority called the Section 122, which allows the president to impose up to 15% for 150 days. And then afterwards, Congress needs to approve the tariff's existing beyond that.
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