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Lawrence_ _Worldwide humiliation_ for Trump as court rules his tariff _madness_ is unconstitutional(MP3_160K) · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: Well, as I say, the breaking news of the night
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  Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump's illegal tariffs are gone thanks to
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  Speaker 1: a ruling of the United States Court of International Trade.
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  Speaker 1: Futures trading is now soaring tonight in the expectation of
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  Speaker 1: an explosively positive reaction by the stock market tomorrow, when
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  Speaker 1: the world will reset itself around the restoration of law
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  Speaker 1: and order in international trade and the crushing of the
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  Speaker 1: Trump tariffs and resultant personal worldwide humiliation of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump tariffs were always illegal and unconstitutional, and you
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  Speaker 1: heard that on this program every time we covered Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's comments about tariffs, including very much during the presidential campaign,
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  Speaker 1: when the campaign press court never ever reported to voters
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  Speaker 1: that the Trump proposed tariffs during the campaign were completeletely
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  Speaker 1: illegal and unconstitutional. The campaign press corps never reported to
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  Speaker 1: voters that those proposals were constitutionally insane, and the person
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  Speaker 1: pronouncing those proposals at those Trump rallies was constitutionally out
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  Speaker 1: of his mind just based on what he was saying
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  Speaker 1: about tariffs alone. The campaign press corps completely failed the
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  Speaker 1: American voter on this issue, with American voters just discovering
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  Speaker 1: tonight from the International Court of Trade just how illegal
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  Speaker 1: and unconstitutional and Trump tariffs always have been. The United
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  Speaker 1: States Court of International Trade, which has exclusive jurisdiction over
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  Speaker 1: cases involving tariff disputes, has ruled unanimously then when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to tariffs, Donald Trump does not have quote unbounded authority,
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  Speaker 1: and the court sets aside the challenged tariffs. The court
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  Speaker 1: gave the plaintiffs suing the Trump administration even more than
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  Speaker 1: they expected. The plaintiffs include twelve states with Democratic governors
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  Speaker 1: who sued arguing that the Trump tariffs are unconstitutional and illegal,
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  Speaker 1: and asked the court for at least a temporary injunction
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  Speaker 1: temporarily blocking the tariffs. But the Court went all the
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  Speaker 1: way and delivered a full and final ruling in the case,
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  Speaker 1: granting what the Court calls a summary judgment against Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump and all of his tariffs. So, as of this
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  Speaker 1: hour tonight, it is no longer illegal at any port
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  Speaker 1: of entry in the United States for a United States
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  Speaker 1: custom service to collect a single dollar of Trump tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: Civil lawsuits like this seldom have such total and complete
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  Speaker 1: and final victories. Just two weeks after the court heard
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  Speaker 1: arguments in the case. Victories in this case for plaintiffs
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  Speaker 1: at this stage of this litigation are very unusual. But
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  Speaker 1: here we are, and as I've been reporting to you
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  Speaker 1: literally for years now, there are few things more clear
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  Speaker 1: in law than Congress's complete authority over tariffs. The Court
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  Speaker 1: of International Trade said in its opinion that even if
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  Speaker 1: Congress wanted to give Donald Trump power over tariffs, it
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  Speaker 1: would be unconstitutional to do so. Quote. An unlimited delegation
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  Speaker 1: of tariff authority would constitute an improper abdication of legislative
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  Speaker 1: power to another branch of government. Donald Trump's illegal tariffs
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  Speaker 1: were based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven, and today, finally, the Court of International
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  Speaker 1: Trade said what I've been saying since the day Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump invoked that law to support his tariffs. Quote, any
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  Speaker 1: interpretation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act that delegates
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  Speaker 1: unlimited tariff authority, he is unconstitutional. The Court rejected Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's claim of a national emergency to justify his tariffs, saying,
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  Speaker 1: the mere incantation of national emergency cannot, of course sound
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  Speaker 1: the death knell of the Constitution. And that's what Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump is trying to do. He's trying to kill the
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  Speaker 1: Constitution of the United States in a different way every day.
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  Speaker 1: He tried and failed, thanks to the Court of International
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  Speaker 1: Trade to sound the death knell of the Constitution by
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  Speaker 1: stealing Congress's exclusive power over tariffs, and in a forty
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  Speaker 1: nine page ruling co authored by three judges of the
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  Speaker 1: Court of International Trade in New York City, donald Trump's
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  Speaker 1: attempts to kill the Constitution this time have failed. Judge
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  Speaker 1: Gary Katzman was appointed by President Obama. Judge Jane Ristani
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  Speaker 1: was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan. Timothy Reef was
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  Speaker 1: appointed by Republican President Donald Trump, and those three judges
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  Speaker 1: unanimously agreed to every word in tonight's breaking news opinion
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  Speaker 1: that there is nothing in American law that can make
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's tariffs legal. Two sets of plaintiffs brought cases
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  Speaker 1: to the Court of International Trade, and in their unanimous
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  Speaker 1: opinion tonight, the Court said, the question in the two
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  Speaker 1: cases before the Court is whether the International Emergency Economic
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  Speaker 1: Powers Act of nineteen seventy seven delegates these powers to
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  Speaker 1: the President in the form of authority to impose unlimited
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  Speaker 1: tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world.
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  Speaker 1: The Court does not read the International Emergency Economic powers
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  Speaker 1: act to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the
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  Speaker 1: challenged tariffs imposed there under for Donald Trump's benefit, though
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  Speaker 1: he of course could actually read a single page of
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  Speaker 1: a court opinion, but mostly for the benefit of the
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  Speaker 1: United States Supreme Court. The trade experts on the Court
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  Speaker 1: of International Trade wrote a brief history of international trade
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  Speaker 1: right in their opinion, and a brief history of international
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  Speaker 1: trade law for Donald Trump's Supreme Court justices to study,
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  Speaker 1: because they know very little about international trade law. When
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump no doubt appeals this case all the way
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  Speaker 1: up to the judges on the Supreme Court, who he
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  Speaker 1: believes owe him their permanent loyalty, the Trade Court identified
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  Speaker 1: three different kinds of tariff's donald Trump was illegally imposing,
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  Speaker 1: and ruled against each of them, calling each of them
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  Speaker 1: illegal and unconstitutional. The referred to tariff's imposed on countries
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  Speaker 1: to indirectly force them to somehow stop the flow of
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  Speaker 1: fentanyl around the world and other illicit drugs that are illegal.
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  Speaker 1: Because tariffs cannot legally be used to leverage the behavior
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  Speaker 1: of other governments on issues other than regulated international trade,
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  Speaker 1: the Court wrote attacks deals with a budget deficit by
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  Speaker 1: raising revenue a dam deals with flooding by holding back
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  Speaker 1: a river, but there is no such association between the
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  Speaker 1: act of imposing a tariff and the unusual and extraordinary
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  Speaker 1: threats that the trafficking orders purport to combat. The trafficking
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  Speaker 1: orders do not deal with their stated objectives. Rather as
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  Speaker 1: the government technologies the orders aim to create leverage to
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  Speaker 1: deal with those objectives. That use is impermissible, not because
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  Speaker 1: it is unwiser ineffective, but because Section seventeen oh one
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  Speaker 1: does not allow it. The Court laid out the legal specifics,
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  Speaker 1: striking down all of what Donald Trump calls his reciprocal tariffs,
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  Speaker 1: and throughout the opinion, the Court was very clear that
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  Speaker 1: Congress would have the authority to impose any of these tariffs,
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  Speaker 1: but the president simply does not have that legal authority.
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  Speaker 1: In the same sense that the president does have the
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  Speaker 1: power to pardon people convicted of federal crimes, which Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump is doing in the most corrupt manner in history,
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  Speaker 1: but Congress does not have the power to pardon people
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  Speaker 1: convicted of federal crimes. These distinctions in presidential and congressional
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  Speaker 1: power have always been easy and simple for people to understand,
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  Speaker 1: and no one has ever disputed them, just as no
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  Speaker 1: one has ever imagined prior to Donald Trump, that a
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  Speaker 1: president has the authority to raise or lower tariffs. The
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  Speaker 1: Court went through a painful recitation of all the tariffs
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has threatened to imposed and then reduced, and
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  Speaker 1: then postponed, saying every one of those decisions was made illegally.
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  Speaker 1: The Court explained that a summary judgment is the only
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  Speaker 1: possible way in this case, that this case can be resolved,
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  Speaker 1: and needs to be resolved now. And this Court explained
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  Speaker 1: the standards for a summary judgment, saying the Court shall
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  Speaker 1: grant summary judgment if the movement shows that there is
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  Speaker 1: no genuine dispute as to any material fact, and the
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  Speaker 1: movement is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.
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  Speaker 1: That is a very high bar. But Donald Trump's constitutional
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  Speaker 1: illiteracy easily delivered a summary judgment to the States and
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  Speaker 1: other plaintiffs to end all of the Trump tariffs and
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  Speaker 1: not allow them to be collected at any port of
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  Speaker 1: entry anywhere in the United States. The Court, of course,
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  Speaker 1: cited James Madison writing in the Federalist Papers on the
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  Speaker 1: importance of Separation of Powers, and said an unlimited delegation
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  Speaker 1: of tariff authority would be unconstitutional, The court said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: the president's assertion of authority here has no meaningful limiting standards,
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  Speaker 1: essentially enabling ling him to impose any tariff rate he
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  Speaker 1: wants on any country at any time, for virtually any reason.
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  Speaker 1: The Court stopped that madness tonight. It's over. The Trump
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  Speaker 1: tariff madness ends now. The court said. Donald Trump's attempt
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  Speaker 1: to use our international trade balance of payments with countries
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  Speaker 1: around the world as a reason for a president to
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  Speaker 1: impose tariff's was illegal and unconstitutional. Donald Trump has lost
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  Speaker 1: in court many times before, most notably in the thirty
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  Speaker 1: four guilty verdicts returned against him by a jury of
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  Speaker 1: his peers in a criminal case in Manhattan last year,
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  Speaker 1: and the judgment against Donald Trump by the Court of
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  Speaker 1: International Trade will now take its place among those legal
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  Speaker 1: cases in which Donald Trump has lost, and lost decisively.
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  Speaker 1: On every single point that Donald Trump raised in the court,
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  Speaker 1: there is not a single word that was said by
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's lawyers justifying his tariffs that was accepted by
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  Speaker 1: a single judge on the Court of International Trade, including
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  Speaker 1: the Trump appoint the judge who joined this unanimous opinion,
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  Speaker 1: and so Tomorrow, when Donald Trump stands before a microphone
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  Speaker 1: and lies to the American people about his tariffs, it
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  Speaker 1: will be another worldwide humiliation day for Donald Trump.