SCOTUS Strikes Down Trump's Tariffs, GDP Snapshot, Massive Plains Fire and more
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, happy Friday. From CNN, I'm David Rind with the five things you need to know for February 20th. |
| 0:08.0 | The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major defeat this morning when it comes to his favorite economic and foreign policy tool, tariffs. |
| 0:16.4 | Let's get right to CNN, senior legal analyst, Ellie Honig. |
| 0:19.4 | The bottom line is that the tariffs Donald Trump announced back in April on Liberation |
| 0:23.8 | Day are gone. |
| 0:25.1 | They have been ruled illegal by this US Supreme Court. |
| 0:28.5 | An interesting array of justices here. |
| 0:31.2 | In the majority, ruling that the tariffs are illegal, is Chief Justice Roberts, Justice |
| 0:35.3 | Gorsuch, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, three conservatives, |
| 0:38.6 | who teamed up with the three liberal justices, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, to rule these |
| 0:44.0 | tariffs unconstitutional. The dissenters are justices Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh. And the basis for |
| 0:50.5 | the ruling is this. Congress, not the president, Congress typically holds the tariff power. |
| 0:56.9 | Big question now is, what happens to the $134 plus billion in tariff revenue that's already been collected? |
| 1:04.0 | Will importers get reimbursed in some way? |
| 1:06.1 | The court doesn't seem to outline a plan here, so this could get extremely messy in the lower courts. |
| 1:11.8 | According to two people familiar with their remarks, President Trump called the ruling a disgrace |
| 1:15.9 | during a White House breakfast with governors. |
| 1:18.3 | He had previously said he would try to reimpose tariffs under other laws, which could be much more restrictive. |
| 1:25.0 | A lot more news coming up, including some more news about the economy and more on a potential |
| 1:29.6 | U.S. strike on Iran. |
| 1:31.3 | Stick around. |
| 1:32.3 | Speaking of the economy, I have some good news and I have some bad news. |
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