The Justice Department Is Skipping Out on Epstein Accountability
The Counsel
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I got in the water in the very early morning before the sun had risen and the water was pitch black. |
| 0:07.0 | I started swimming and I felt the water hollowing out around me and felt like something really big was swimming below. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Phoebe Judge and this is Love, a show about the surprising things that love can make us do. |
| 0:24.5 | More than 100 episodes available now on This Is Love. |
| 0:31.4 | Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday. Well, last Friday, after this podcast dropped, we got the U.S. Supreme |
| 0:40.0 | Court's tariff ruling striking down President Trump's emergency economic powers tariffs. |
| 0:45.5 | I did write an emergency column for New York Magazine, breaking down the opinion. |
| 0:50.0 | You can check that out, but we did not do a separate podcast. |
| 0:53.1 | So looking forward, a couple things. |
| 0:55.5 | One of the big remaining questions is what happens with the $130 plus billion, maybe as high as |
| 1:02.5 | $200 billion now, but we know $130 billion as of the end of 2025? What happens to all that money |
| 1:08.1 | that was collected under these tariffs, which turn out to be unconstitutional? And man, it must be nice to be the U.S. Supreme Court because they knew this was a big, messy issue. They raised it several times at oral argument. Amy Coney-Barrant seemed especially worried about how are we going to work out the money if we rule this unconstitutional? And what does the Supreme Court do? |
| 1:28.3 | They ignore it. Must be nice, right? Just some messy problem and just go, how about it if I just say nothing about it? And then maybe I won't have to deal with it, at least now. Justice Kavanaugh did address it in dissent, he said it would be, quote, a mess. And he's exactly right about that. If you saw Donald Trump's unhinged rant after this ruling, I won't dignify it with much of a repetition here. |
| 1:50.1 | But you've seen it where he attacks the justices and says their foreign agents and their embarrassments to their families, |
| 1:56.6 | a ridiculous, historically outrageous rant by the president. |
| 2:00.6 | He does say one thing, one thing that I |
| 2:03.3 | will sign on to where he says something like, boy, the Supreme Court spends all this time |
| 2:07.6 | putting together this opinion and they don't even tell us what to do with the money. |
| 2:11.1 | That I agree with. Pretty much that one sentence out of everything Trump said over the whole |
| 2:15.5 | entire rant. So what happens now? We're going to |
| 2:18.7 | get lawsuits, surely from these importers who've paid these tariffs. And by the way, the people who |
| 2:23.9 | pay tariffs are U.S. importers. They're not foreign countries, as some have suggested. We'll see |
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