SCOTUS: TRADE AND THE CONSTITUTION. RICHARD EPSTEIN, CIVITAS.
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🗓️ 31 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batch for welcoming Professor Richard Epstein of the |
| 0:10.3 | Civitas Institute teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago. Wednesday just passed. |
| 0:16.1 | The U.S. Court of International Trade's surprise ruling delivered a blow to the president's tariff plans, |
| 0:21.6 | writes the Financial Times, and drew a backlash from the White House, which accused judges |
| 0:27.4 | of, quote, judicial overreach. And then, on Thursday, a federal appeals court gave Mr. |
| 0:35.3 | Trump's global tariff plans, a temporary reprieve, writes the Financial Times, |
| 0:39.9 | pausing a ruling that he claimed undermined, underlined his Liberation Day levies. |
| 0:49.2 | In a ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal court granted the temporary stay until further notice. |
| 0:54.7 | On Wednesday, we're going this way. |
| 0:56.7 | On Thursday, we're going this way. |
| 0:58.6 | Here it is Friday, Professor. |
| 1:00.2 | Where are we going now? |
| 1:01.1 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:02.6 | Well, I think we're going to the Supreme Court and probably more quickly than not. |
| 1:06.6 | The issue here is too big for anybody to ignore. |
| 1:09.7 | The decision below, far from being a judicial overreach, was one of the easiest cases in terms of its legal merits that you could possibly imagine. |
| 1:18.4 | The person who's going bananas on this is Trump. |
| 1:21.2 | And his level of ignorance about this subject has now become transcendent. |
| 1:25.3 | That is, he cannot be trusted. |
| 1:26.9 | He does not understand what he's doing. |
| 1:28.9 | He lashes out at people in a vicious and a kind of ugly way. |
| 1:32.4 | He's not fit to serve as president of the United States, |
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