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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Trump’s Un-American, Unconstitutional Tariff Scheme
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In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Ben Bayer and Robertas Bakula examine the key arguments supporting the President’s tariffs before the Supreme Court and expose their un-American hostility to the rule of law.
Topics include:
Background on the case;
Defying the rule of law;
Hostility to objective legal interpretation;
Tariffs are not foreign policy powers;
The absence of an “intelligible principle”;
Striking down unconstitutional laws;
Un-American arguments and policies;
Likely and desirable outcomes.
Resources:
Ayn Rand Lexicon, “Law, objective and non-objective”
Ayn Rand, “The Nature of Government”
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