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Music I'm Marissa Wong, Internet Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare for February 28, 2006.

On February 20th, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Learning Resources v. Trump,

which held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or AIPA, does not authorize the

president to impose tariffs.

The decision struck down President Trump's AEPA--based tariffs like the fentanyl and reciprocal tariffs,

but left tariffs based in other statutes standing.

For today's archive, I chose an episode from February 27th, 2025,

in which Kathleen Claussen and Peter Harrell joined Scott Anderson to unpack President

Trump's sweeping tariffs from his

first month of his second term. If legal authorities fully support these tariffs, and what challenges

may come next?

It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm senior editor Scott R. Anderson with Kathleen Klausen, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and Peter

Harrell, a contributing editor here at Lawfare and non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment

for the National Peace. Either the tariff provides him leverage and the foreign counterparty caves and gives him what he

wants, and that's obviously a win.

Or if it doesn't get the foreign counterparty to cave, he gets tariff revenue.

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