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Laura Coates Live

Defiant Trump Enacts New Tariffs While Fuming At Supreme Court

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs on Friday, a significant decision that could redirect the course of the administration’s economic and foreign policy agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

tonight the supreme court strikes down trump's illegal tariffs dealing his agenda a major blow

0:13.1

as business owners and governors demand a refund plus a potential new clue in the search for Nancy Guthrie. A couple says they found

0:23.3

a black glove less than a mile from her home and this one they say appears to have blood

0:29.1

on it. And later the new investigation into Jeffrey Epsena State, you may not know about,

0:34.6

his sprawling ranch in New Mexico. all tonight on laurcote's life

0:43.5

by my opening statement tonight for the first time in his second term the majority of the

0:51.6

supreme court justices made one thing clear. The system of checks and

0:55.8

balances is alive and well, at least for now. In a six to three decision, the court struck down

1:02.6

Trump's tariff's tax tariffs as illegal. Not only the decision suggests it wasn't a rubber

1:07.5

stamp for President Trump, it told him to stay in his executive lane.

1:12.5

They didn't buy the argument that Trump sweeping emergency tariffs were not taxes.

1:17.3

And if their taxes, sounds like Congress is laying.

1:21.1

Has Congress given a president some authority to impose tariffs?

1:24.1

Yes.

1:25.1

Did Congress give him total authority and hand their powers over?

1:29.3

No. I don't usually do this, but I want story time. Because part of Justice Neil Gorsuch's

1:36.1

concurring opinion makes it crystal clear about what this is really about. Not just whether a president

1:42.4

can slap on tariffs by first declaring an emergency or even

1:45.9

how much deference the president deserves, but how much power a president should have,

1:51.1

according to the Constitution, and why decisions this important are supposed to go through Congress,

1:57.1

not one person. This is the last paragraph of his 46-page concurrence. For those who think it

2:05.4

important for the nation to impose more tariffs, I understand that today's decision will be

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