SCOTUS strikes down Trump's reciprocal tariffs.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, the Supreme Court voted 6–3 to strike down most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, finding that the president exceeded his authority when he imposed duties under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The Court’s ruling invalidates the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, which imposed a 10% baseline duty on U.S. trading partners as well as steeper tariffs on individual countries.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:14.1 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. It is Monday, February 23rd. I'm back in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it has snowed. |
| 0:35.0 | My friends, we're sitting in about 12 inches of this big East Coast blizzard. |
| 0:41.1 | It sounds like New York City and the Northeast are getting crushed right now. |
| 0:44.8 | So if you're listening to this podcast, I hope you're all safe and warm and inside. |
| 0:49.9 | Today, we are covering the Supreme Court's rulings on President Donald Trump's tariffs. |
| 0:56.0 | They have struck down most of his tariff agenda, the quote-unquote emergency tariffs he has put |
| 1:02.4 | in a place. We're going to talk exactly about what happened, share some views from the left |
| 1:07.0 | and the right, and then my take. Before we jump into that, a quick reminder that on |
| 1:11.6 | Friday, we actually did a little experiment. How would Chat GPT do if we had it write a tangle take? |
| 1:19.2 | I asked ChatGPT to try to mimic me and evaluated its performance. I gave my opinion on the future |
| 1:25.6 | of AI. We talked about this all in the context of the relative |
| 1:30.3 | craziness that's been going on with artificial intelligence and the dialogue these last few weeks. |
| 1:36.6 | The piece generated a ton of interest, questions, and criticism, which I expected. In case you missed |
| 1:41.7 | it, you can find that episode by going back a couple in our feed. |
| 1:46.2 | And you can also go to our website, retangle.com, to read some of the comments on the actual |
| 1:50.1 | article and join the discussion. All right, with that, I'm going to send it over to John for |
| 1:54.2 | today's main topic, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 2:06.0 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. |
| 2:08.1 | Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. |
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