President Trump Asks Supreme Court To Uphold Tariffs

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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President Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his authority to issue tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. We discuss the implications of a possible ruling — if the court strikes down his tariffs and if it says Trump’s tariffs are legal.

This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel Martin. I'm the host of Wildcard from NPR. For a lot of my years as a radio host,
0:06.6	silence sort of made me nervous. That pause before an answer, because you don't know what's going
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0:24.2	Hi, this is Tracy from Livermore, California.
0:27.0	I just submitted my first job application since becoming a stay-at-home mom 11 years ago.
0:31.7	This podcast was recorded at...
0:33.4	123 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, September 8th, 2025.
0:37.8	Things may have changed by the time you hear it. Like, I might have to start wearing something other than yoga pants again.
0:42.8	Okay. Enjoy the show.
0:48.1	Wow. Congratulations. Big life change. And good luck also. Yeah. Good luck. Hey there. it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics.
0:57.5	I'm Danielle Kurtzleben. I cover the White House. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.
1:03.3	And today on the show, will the Supreme Court let President Trump continue with his current tariff policy?
1:09.2	Danielle, a federal appeals court recently ruled that some of
1:11.9	Trump's tariffs are illegal. Can you catch us up, though, on how we got here? All right, let's start
1:16.7	with the very basics. This term, Trump has imposed a lot of tariffs. We all know this. And there are
1:21.5	two main types of tariffs he has imposed. There are tariffs on specific goods, like his aluminum and
1:27.4	steel tariffs, automobiles.
1:29.2	Those are called Section 232 tariffs. That's named for the particular part of a particular
1:33.6	law that authorizes them. We're going to set those aside. Those are not the ones we're talking about
1:38.2	here. The other types of tariffs he's imposed are on different countries' goods. So those are
1:43.6	authorized under the International
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