The Trump administration is using Humpty Dumpty rules to justify its new tariffs.
The anthropomorphic egg famously said in the Lewis Carroll novel Through the Looking Glass, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
For the Trump team, that word is “emergency.”
President Trump has imposed sweeping global tariffs based on his purported authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA). The president...
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