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Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday. Well, regular listeners of this podcast might recall, but two or

three weeks ago, I did a piece about how the Trump administration has this habit, where they

like to pull up these old, sometimes obscure, sometimes wartime laws and argue that everything

happening now is an emergency.

It's an invasion.

It's a rebellion.

It's a predatory incursion.

And in the piece, I criticized the administration because I said doing this is ridiculous.

First of all, it's unjustified.

And I also said it's counterproductive.

They're going to continue losing in the courts when they try to use these extreme unusual measures to get their way. The first example that we talked about in that piece

was the tariffs, which Donald Trump justified by using this law called Aiepa, the International

Economic Emergency Powers Act.

Trump said, well, we have trade deficits, which, by the way, we've had for over 45 years

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