The administration gave the court a clear pathway to find and favor the administration. I won't go into great detail about this. Otherwise, I won't stop talking about it. The plain language of the statute authorizes the president in an emergency situation to regulate imports. You regulate imports with the tariff. That's just historic. That's how it works. There's an emergency with our trade deficit and offshoring, courts typically will defer on the emergency. (42:37–42:43)
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Asserts that the statute allows the president to regulate imports during emergencies.
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