Rights You Can’t Use
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Aziz Huq, University of Chicago law professor and author of The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, lays out how federal courts have gutted the mechanisms for enforcing constitutional rights—blocking individuals harmed by police while greenlighting speculative corporate attacks on regulation. Also, Donald Trump crowns himself de facto CEO of the U.S. chip industry and gatekeeper of U.S. Steel’s future. And Matt Taibbi’s “year-to-date” murder stat takedown of D.C. backfires once he actually checks the date.
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| 0:37.9 | I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:39.1 | Let's check in on the job Donald Trump is doing. |
| 0:42.1 | Well, not the job. |
| 0:42.9 | The jobs from the New York Times today. |
| 0:44.7 | Trump has made himself commander-in-chief of the chip industry. |
| 0:48.9 | Mr. Trump has made himself the biggest decision-maker for one of the world's most |
| 0:52.9 | economically and strategically |
| 0:54.6 | important industries. And he has turned the careful planning of companies historically led |
| 1:00.3 | by engineers into a game of insider politics, the paper says. Economic historians have said |
| 1:06.2 | it is the most aggressive federal incursion in the U.S. economy since Obama's actions in 2009 to rescue |
| 1:12.5 | banks in the auto industry. This time, they, the economists say, the intrusion is unprovoked. |
| 1:18.6 | At issue, Navidia is paying a trumped 15% excise tax to sell its chips to China. Exise taxes |
| 1:27.0 | are illegal under the Constitution, by the way. |
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