Skepticism and a civics lesson from SCOTUS
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Yesterday, Supreme Court justices heard arguments and asked questions about whether an emergency powers law could be used by a president to overhaul international trade and bring in lots of money through import taxes — all without getting Congress to go along. The justices were skeptical, to say the least. We'll discuss. Plus, we'll hear how suspended SNAP benefits are playing out at one food bank in Central California.
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| 0:31.2 | President Trump's reciprocal tariffs get a rough ride in the highest of courts. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm David Bruncatchew in Los Angeles. U.S. Supreme Court |
| 0:40.2 | justices yesterday heard the arguments and asked questions about whether an emergency powers law |
| 0:45.4 | from back when disco was first hitting the charts can be used by a president to overhaul international |
| 0:50.6 | trade and raise taxes without getting Congress to go along. I spoke this morning with |
| 0:55.3 | Jess Braven, Supreme Court correspondent for the Wall Street Journal who listened to every word |
| 0:59.9 | yesterday. I asked him if justices were buying what the administration was selling. |
| 1:04.6 | No, they weren't. And it was interesting to hear them talk about it because, you know, we've |
| 1:09.0 | been going for months with a bunch of |
| 1:11.2 | unexplained emergency orders that have largely gone the administration's way. So to hear the |
| 1:17.0 | justices grilling Solicitor General John Sauer and really having skeptical questions about the |
| 1:24.2 | administration's position was a reminder that the Supreme Court does take these cases one by one, |
| 1:29.5 | and it's not a slam dunk, even for a president who has gotten so far pretty much everything he's asked for. |
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