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Judge Luttig: We must take back our country from Trump's 'war on the rule of law'
MSNBC· 2026-02-21 19:13
JOINING ME NOW, OF COURSE, IS MY FRIEND JUDGE MICHAEL LUDIG, A FORMER JUDGE ON THE U .S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. JUDGE LUDIG, WELCOME BACK TO THE SHOW.I HAD CHILLS LISTENING TO YOUR speech last week. You invited me to be there for it, in which you issued a calling that now is the time to use all tools at our disposal to fight tyranny, not simply voting every two years. For the first time in 10 years, Allie, I not only have hope, today I have confidence that America is going to prevail and l ...
Striking down Trump’s tariffs proved the Supreme Court ‘can still set boundaries’
MSNBC· 2026-02-21 18:58
Yesterday the Supreme Court underscored a principle that's in part of the Constitution of the United States of America from the very beginning. Even the most powerful president in the world cannot rewrite the Constitution to win an argument about economics. 24 hours ago, President Trump suffered a significant legal defeat on one of the defining policies of his political identity, his tariffs.For years, Donald Trump described tariffs as a kind of economic superpower, a way to punish foreign countries and ric ...
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell - Feb. 20 | Audio Only
MSNBC· 2026-02-21 13:29
Tonight, as you know, the Supreme Court reminded the country that even the most powerful president in the world does not get to rewrite the Constitution to win an argument about economics. Tonight, Donald Trump lost, and he lost decisively, on one of the defining policies of his political identity, tariffs. For years, Trump has described tariffs as "economic magic," a way to punish foreign countries and rich Americans and fund the U.S. government all at once. He has insisted that other nations were paying u ...
Velshi: 'There is hope yet for the republic' after Trump's Supreme Court loss 
MSNBC· 2026-02-21 12:16
ALL RIGHT TONIGHT AS YOU KNOW THE SUSUPREME COURT REMINDED THE COUNTRY THAT EVEN THE THE MOST POWERFUL PRESIDENT IN THE WORLD DOES NOT GET TO REWRITE THE CONSTITUTION TO WIN AN ARGUMENT ABOUT ECONOMICS. TONIGHT, DONALD TRUMP LOST AND HE LOST DECISIVELY ON ONE OF THE DEFINING POLICIES OF his political identity. Tariffs.For years, Trump has described tariffs as economic magic. A way to punish foreign countries and rich Americans and fund the U .S. government all at once.He has insisted that other nations were ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-21 04:06
RT Mark Taylor (@Mark___Taylor)The fact that an America existed before the Constitution must be erased because it will lead people to believe our values and culture came from demographics and not from a piece of paper.And if that’s the case preserving the paper and not the people was a disaster. ...
'Language of autocracy not democracy': Reaction to Trump's criticism of Supreme Court
MSNBC· 2026-02-20 21:31
thweekend primetime and economics editor for The Bulwark, Catherine Rampell. Staff writer at The New Yorker, Susan Glasser. MSNOW justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Delanian and senior writer at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern.Catherine, I will start with you. So in that very interesting speech earlier this afternoon. Good euphemism.Yes, you know, I have to have a bunch of those in my back pocket all the time in this day and age. So the president clearly lashing out, angry he lost here. At the same time do ...
The Supreme Court struck down Trump's tariffs. Now what?
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-20 21:05
It's going to set us on a whole new prosperous path. >> Right over there. >> Just a little while ago, the US Supreme Court announced it had struck down President Trump's tariffs.>> I want to be very well behaved. I didn't want to do anything that would affect the decision of the court because I understand the court. I understand how they're very easily swayed.I want to be a good boy. >> The vote was six to three, three justices dissenting. Um and this could affect potentially $170 billion dollar worth of ta ...
Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs: What’s Next?
The US Supreme Court has struck down a big swath of President Trump's tariffs imposed on nations all over the world last year. This opens up a lot of questions moving forward. In a 6 to3 ruling, the court effectively held that the law under which President Trump was trying to impose the tariffs did not actually give him the power to do so. The ruling applied to all of the tariffs that were passed under a law called AIPA. And really that applied to two main categories of the tariffs.all of the so-called reci ...
This is a Tremendous Day For The Constitution Says Treyz
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-20 18:20
This is just a tremendous day, a huge win for the Constitution, for folks who cover tax policy, for anybody who remembers the Revolutionary War, we fought against specifically a taxation power that Congress did not have any say over. So this is, in my opinion, the largest and most impactful macroeconomic ruling the courts have ever delivered. So just a tremendous day.It is in line with what the market was expecting. You could see that investors were very prepared to rip the retail stocks. Everybody, everybo ...
Supreme Court strikes down Trump tariffs, rebuking president’s signature economic policy
CNBC Television· 2026-02-20 16:40
Aean Javvers in DC's had a chance to look through the decision and maybe get us a count as well. Aean. >> Yeah, Carl, that's right.The Supreme Court has now ruled against the president of the United States on this issue of whether his tariffs of 2025 were legal or not. Here's the key sentence from the ruling. The Supreme Court says the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, that is the lower court in this case, is affirmed.Now remember uh the lower court said that AIPA the l ...