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Podcast: Narativ with Zev Shalev (Audio)
Episode: Courts Strike Back: Day 129 of Trump's Legal Reckoning
Description: Day 129 brought a cascade of judicial pushback against Trump's overreach, with federal courts systematically dismantling his illegal power grabs while he desperately tries to pack the bench with loyalists.The Tariff DemolitionTwo separate federal courts declared Trump's global tariffs "contrary to law" and "unlawful," finding his claimed emergency justifications were fabricated. The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Congress, not the president, has authority to impose tariffs, calling Trump's emergency claims "a figment of his own imagination." Though Trump secured a temporary stay on appeal, the underlying legal foundation of...