Kathleen Claussen

Kathleen Claussen appears in The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump’s tariffs. Now what? as the Georgetown law professor explaining the trade-law stakes of the Supreme Court ruling. She says trade lawyers did not generally treat the International Emergency Economic Powers Act as a tariff statute, which makes her the source’s main guide to IEPA Tariff Authority Limit.

Claussen also explains the fallback route through Section 122 Tariff Authority. In the episode, Section 122 permits tariffs up to 15% for a limited balance-of-payments period, but it is not presented as a clean replacement for IEPA because it expires after 150 days unless United States Congress extends it.

Connections

• Supreme Court and Donald Trump - court and president in the tariff-authority dispute.
• IEPA Tariff Authority Limit - central legal interpretation she explains.
• Section 122 Tariff Authority - fallback tariff route she describes.
• Executive Power Precedent - broader governance implication of statutory limits on presidential tariff power.