Preview: Tariffs: Colleague Richard Epstein provides a possible timeline for the courts to rule on POTUS claim of the tariff decisions under emergency authority. More.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:29.0 | Monday.com. This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague, Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute, |
| 0:35.7 | about the courts hearing the dispute between the administration |
| 0:41.4 | and those complaining many states, 20 states, about the president taking tariff power from |
| 0:48.3 | the Congress in claiming it's a national emergency, asserting it's a national emergency, and that that |
| 0:56.3 | permits under the 1977 law the president to act. However, it's before the courts. Richard's |
| 1:05.2 | expecting action in the next few days, and here he's going to explain. |
| 1:14.2 | Richard Epstein on the case of the terrorist, |
| 1:16.8 | does the president have the authority he's taken or to the court's rule that it's not constitutional |
| 1:21.6 | for the presidents to take the tariff power |
| 1:25.1 | away from Congress without Congress's permission or claiming it's an emergency. The emergency |
| 1:32.7 | being a trade imbalance. More of this tonight. So the appeals goes to the court and the court |
| 1:39.3 | But then what they say is we've looked at this. We'll give you our opinion in 10 days, but right now what happens |
| 1:45.1 | is we have concluded he does not have this authority. And you put a paragraph out, give the |
| 1:50.0 | injunction, and then say the clock is running, go for certiorari to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:55.8 | And the court can happen very quickly if they want to. The court can take it up immediately. |
| 2:00.5 | Yes, remember, August 7th is a key day. |
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