GORSUCH'S ROLLERCOASTER, BARRETT'S BABYSITTER, SUPREME COURT AND TARIFFS
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | Okay, so we're going to talk about tariffs today. |
| 0:08.7 | We'll talk a little bit about the EPA. |
| 0:11.1 | We'll talk a little bit about babysitters. |
| 0:13.2 | As you know, the Supreme Court struck down the practice that President Trump had been using, |
| 0:19.8 | which was to assign tariff somewhat at will by his own |
| 0:24.8 | executive orders, what country, what percentage, what items, all of that, and said essentially, |
| 0:35.1 | that is the power of Congress. |
| 0:37.2 | It's a power of Congress that couldn't be |
| 0:39.7 | delegated if they wanted to. And the particular statutes that the president was citing did not |
| 0:47.3 | give him enough authority and the plain words of it, which were regulating imports, was not |
| 0:53.6 | enough authority to do what he was doing. |
| 0:57.0 | I think the decision's pretty clear. |
| 0:59.0 | I don't see how it could have come down any other way. |
| 1:01.9 | I think something as large as a tariff policy, just democratically, morally speaking, |
| 1:09.4 | has to at least have a vote of the nation's representatives, |
| 1:13.1 | a specific vote, or has to have been a major issue in the election where the information was |
| 1:21.1 | known. |
| 1:21.4 | In other words, a candidate saying, you elect me, I'm going to put 50% tariffs on the EU |
| 1:27.3 | and Brazil and other countries, |
| 1:29.3 | you know. |
| 1:29.9 | And I don't know that that information was known to the voter during the election. |
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