KQED Interview on Legal Challenges to Trump's Immigration and Tariff Policies

We also covered the issue of the administration's failure to properly obey court orders and the looming threat of a "constitutional crisis."

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on April 2 instituting tariffs on a wide range of countries. ( Andrew Leyden/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom)

 

I recently did an interview with KQED NPR radio covering some of the legal challenges to Trump's egregious immigration and tariff policies, and considering the broader issues they raise (including the risk of a "constitutional crisis"). The interview was conducted on April 22, and therefore predates the two most recent challenges to Trump's IEEPA tariffs (those filed by twelve states led by Oregon, and the Pacific Legal Foundation). But we nonetheless covered a lot of important ground, and I think this is one of my better recent interviews.

The interview is about 26 minutes long and is available here and here.

Comments

[mulched]

NPR? Quelle surprise!

[Sarcastr0]

Proper media doesn't cover the legal challenges to His Majesty, I presume.

[Kleppe]

Ilya Somin is an Open Borders Extremist.

[Sarcastr0]

Do you consider yourself an extremist?

[Roger S]

I am hoping NPR Radio gets defunded. It is anti-Trump, all the time. It never presents Trump's views, except as described by Trump-haters.

[windycityattorney]

That is not entirely true. They routinely play quotes from Trump himself or his various spokespeople. The fact that what they say sounds really fucking stupid is simply a byproduct of the original source material.

[Sarcastr0]

Do you know much about NPR's federal funding these days?

It doesn't go to programming. Nor to operating costs for the big channels.

It's a fee for service that goes to finance local rural stations. Especially ones where the geography makes the RoI for a commercial station isn't there.

All told the finding is about 1% of NPR's budget. NPR will not be hurt in any core way, it'll just isolate rural people.

That's why the GOP has talked about defunding NPR for ages, but never done it. Trump is dumb enough to do it, though.

[Purple Martin]

Anyone either informed or surprised by those first three comments?

[mulched]

Neither has anyone been informed or surprised by Prof. Somin's writing for the past several weeks, so it all evens out.

[Vryedni]

It doesn't even out. Fortunately, Ilya's OP reaches well beyond the comment threads, which I doubt are read by many except the participants. Unfortunately, the same dynamic pertains to Josh Blackman posts.