About this episode
Ken and Josh discuss the Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs and various legal issues surrounding immigration and judicial actions.
This week Ken and Josh discuss the Supreme Court's ruling in Learning Resources v. Trump , throwing out the massive country-specific tariffs the president purported to impose under the Nixon-era International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The opinion was messy: 6-3, but with the six-justice majority not agreeing on exactly why the tariffs were illegal. Also this week, we look at a contempt order from Judge Laura Provenzino, putting a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in contempt over the government’s failure to return identification documents to a non-citizen released from immigration custody on her orders. We discuss how an order like this matters, and how judges could further escalate in the face of widespread noncompliance by the federal government in these immigration cases. Plus, we discuss a mistrial over a defense attorney’s t-shirt , Judge Paula Xinis’s rejection of yet another effort to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia , Sen. Mark Kelly’s exclamation-mark-laden preliminary win against efforts to reduce his military rank and pension, and a Minnesota judge’s order directing the government to let ICE detainees talk with their lawyers . And we look at an all-timer performance from…
People in this episode
Hosts: Ken White, Josh Barro
Topics covered
- Supreme Court ruling
- tariffs
- immigration custody
- contempt order
- judicial escalation
- defense attorney issues
- congressional deposition
Keywords
- tariffs
- Supreme Court
- immigration
- contempt order
- judicial escalation
- defense attorney
- deposition
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Organizations: Supreme Court, ICE, Learning Resources, U.S. Attorney, Nixon-era International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Judge Paula Xinis
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