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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

President Donald Trump's advisors earn a fury over a court ruling that temporarily blocked many of Trump's tariffs from going into effect.

They're calling it judicial tyranny, the work of globalists, and all sorts of other terrifying names. Just now, an appeals court put an administrative stay on the lower court ruling,

so the tariffs can proceed for now. But we think a major Rubicon was crossed here. It's now clear

the tariffs are extremely vulnerable legally,

and if anything, the whiplash in the courts only underscores what a fiasco of uncertainty

Trump has imposed on the country. And at some point, Trump world will probably have to confront

more seriously adverse court rulings on this, So Trump's conflict with the judiciary will only get

worse. Today we're fortunate to be talking to one of the lead lawyers on this case, Ilya Soman of

George Mason University, who's going to lead us through all this. Ilia, thanks so much for coming on.

Thank you for having me. Let me just start, Ilya, by saying, congrats on the ruling.

Your plaintiffs and you must be pretty pleased with that. We're definitely very happy the way to

ruling came out, and the court recognized the validity of our pretty strong arguments against

this egregious abuse of power by the president. Well, so let's tell people what happened.

The U.S. Court of International

Trade, which oversees such disputes, ruled on Wednesday that many of Trump's tariffs have violated

the law. We're going to go through this really slowly. The first key thing is this. Trump had argued

that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, or IEEPA, gives him virtually

unlimited authority to invoke an emergency and impose the tariffs on that basis.

The emergency invoked was our trade deficits, which is absolutely absurd.

Crucially, the court said the IEBA doesn't authorize any such

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