Trump’s Tariffs on Trial
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
A federal appeals court just shot down most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, and the Supreme Court could soon decide whether they stay or go.
In other news, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced investigations into whether psychiatric drugs are a contributing factor in school shootings.
We’ll discuss these topics and more in this episode of Crossroads.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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| 0:00.0 | The tariffs might not be legal. A federal appeals court just shut down most of President Donald |
| 0:06.7 | Trump's tariffs, and it's predicted the Supreme Court could soon decide whether they stay or go. |
| 0:13.7 | In other news, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced investigations into whether |
| 0:19.5 | psychiatric drugs are a contributing factor in school |
| 0:22.8 | shootings. I'll be talking about these topics and more today. I'm the Epic Times Senior |
| 0:28.0 | Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome to Crossroads. |
| 0:43.0 | The tariffs, well, they might not be legal. |
| 0:48.6 | A federal appeals court, they just shut down most of President Donald Trump's tariffs. |
| 0:50.7 | It's going to go to the Supreme Court now. |
| 0:53.5 | They could decide whether these tariffs stay or go. |
| 0:55.7 | Now, look, first off, on whether Donald Trump's tariffs stay or go, well, Yahoo Finance said this. A federal appeals court |
| 1:02.0 | struck down most of Trump's Congress averting global import tariffs Friday in a dispute that's |
| 1:09.1 | predicted to head to U.S. Supreme Court. Yahoo News is |
| 1:12.8 | basically inserting their interpretation that Trump is avoiding Congress and putting tariffs in |
| 1:19.5 | place and so on. The big question is, well, is that the role of the president or the role of |
| 1:24.6 | Congress. If you go back historically in the United States, |
| 1:27.9 | tariffs, well, it was one of the only powers that the executive branch of the federal government |
| 1:32.7 | actually had. But they note this. The courts seem to disagree. The seven to four ruling, |
| 1:38.4 | it says, issued by 11 judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., allows the |
| 1:45.7 | tariffs to remain in place while the administration decides on an appeal to the U.S. Supreme |
| 1:51.3 | Court, meaning they're gone, but temporarily can stay unless the Supreme Court decides otherwise. |
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