Slaying Tariffs: From Declaration to Supreme Court Victory

About this episode

This episode discusses the Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs and its implications for presidential powers.

The U.S. Supreme Court has invalidated President Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to implement tariffs. What does the Court’s ruling mean? And what’s next for tariffs, and for presidential powers more generally? We explore these questions on this episode of Independent Conversations, featuring Dr. Phillip Magness. Magness holds Independent’s David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy, and is one of a handful of people who actually got the ball rolling on this case.

People in this episode

Host: Independent Institute

Guest: Dr. Phillip Magness

Topics covered

• tariffs
• Supreme Court
• presidential powers
• economic policy
• legal rulings

Keywords

• tariffs
• Supreme Court
• presidential powers
• International Emergency Economic Powers Act
• economic policy

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Organizations: U.S. Supreme Court, International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, Independent Institute

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