Lori Wallach
wallachlori.bsky.social
Lori Wallach
@wallachlori.bsky.social
Director @ Rethink Trade | #WTO #NAFTA #ISDS #supplychainmess 💗 trade justice 🚫 hyperglobalization, corporate-rigged trade deals, Big Tech monopolies | www.rethinktrade.org
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the cases challenging Pres Trump's broad tariff authority. Catch up w/ highlights from the 2+ hour session & hints of where the SCrt may be headed in my thread👇This is a very consequential case. Tariff rates are the least of it!
Good morning - join me in getting ready for the 10 AM landmark Supreme Court oral arguments on the cases that will decide if Pres. Trump has constitutionally valid authority to impose his broadest tariffs. You can listen in live to the Court here 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
https://supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx
t.co
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the cases challenging Pres Trump's broad tariff authority. Catch up w/ highlights from the 2+ hour session & hints of where the SCrt may be headed in my thread👇This is a very consequential case. Tariff rates are the least of it!
Good morning - join me in getting ready for the 10 AM landmark Supreme Court oral arguments on the cases that will decide if Pres. Trump has constitutionally valid authority to impose his broadest tariffs. You can listen in live to the Court here 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
https://supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx
t.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Good thread about supreme court arguments RE: Trump tariff power over reach case.
And, with that, the oral arguments WRAP.

Now festivities shift to front steps of the court, where litigants will do press.

My biggest takeaway: Tho oral arguments arent ispositive of where court will go, bet Trump staff will be dusting off other statutes that give a prez...
November 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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SCOTUS is hearing case against Trump's tariffs. Listen along! I'll offer some thoughts as we go along.
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www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Good morning - join me in getting ready for the 10 AM landmark Supreme Court oral arguments on the cases that will decide if Pres. Trump has constitutionally valid authority to impose his broadest tariffs. You can listen in live to the Court here 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
https://supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx
t.co
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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While you await results, we already have them! On this episode of Organized Money we talk about what candidates have been focused on in the elections, from affordability & electric bills to data centers.
Plus @wallachlori.bsky.social discusses tomorrow's Supreme Court hearing on tariffs.
The Election And Tariffs At The Supreme Court
This week we talk election Tuesday and how odd year politics can influence future electoral politicking. And then the battle over tariffs between the Executive, Congress and the Supreme Court.
www.organizedmoney.fm
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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LIVE IN 30 MINUTES: Rethink Trade’s @wallachlori.bsky.social joins WBUR's @wbur.org to break down what’s at stake in the Supreme Court case on Trump’s tariff authority.

Listen live at 7:00 am PT / 10:00 am ET: www.ctpublic.org
Background memo: rethinktrade.org/article/scot...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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NOW: Rethink Trade's @wallachlori.bsky.social is up next:
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Sharing my thoughts on @rushdoshi.bsky.social's take on the Trump–Xi deal here too.

Rush's original thread here: x.com/RushDoshi/st...
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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ICYMI: Lori Wallach joined Bloomberg to break down what’s at stake in next week's SCOTUS oral arguments about Trump's tariff authorities.

Read Lori's memo here: rethinktrade.org/article/scot...
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Last week, former NSC China Director Rush Doshi walked us through how China's announcement of rare-earth export controls in early October was an escalating form of geopolitical leverage.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Check out my latest podcast: A Chinese rare earths/magnet cut off can derail the global economy - and affect you directly. Years of planning led to China's near-monopoly. Rare earths are not rare/lucrative, but control over processing = major geopolitical power says @rushdoshi.bsky.social 1/
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I just listened to this and hoooly shit. again I do not know much here, but it seems UTTERLY BONKERS to me that the US not only allowed but directly facilitated China's near-monopoly on materials we rely on to this extent. and they 100% have the cheeto's number, too. this is not a good situation D:
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
October 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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On Rethinking Trade, @rushdoshi.bsky.social breaks down what this means and what the U.S. must do next.

LISTEN NOW: open.spotify.com/episode/5Agy...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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China’s move to restrict global access to rare earths and magnets could be cataclysmic — the one-year “pause” announced Sunday doesn’t remove the leverage.
October 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Congratulations to Roxanne Brown, an outstandingly smart and strategic labor leader, on her election to lead the United Steelworkers union & congratulations to the whole USW membership for choosing a visionary leader and relentless fighter for working people to be your president!
October 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Wait, isn’t there a Michael Moore film about a US president with bad approval ratings who is desperate to change the subject by vilifying 🇨🇦?

Trump announced he is cutting off all trade talks over a tv ad from Canada he dislikes - really. [1 / 2]
October 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Great thread.

There’s a lot of confusion about the de minimis trade loophole being closed & related Customs rules. Especially after a story re. UPS trashing incoming packages & online misinfo that “paperwork backlogs” caused this, which is wrong. Here's what's actually going on:
Matt Stoller on X: "@dieworkwear @selise Ok, I'm back. I have been trying to actually understand your own framework so I can look at your logic as a whole. I don't see a ton of consistency. You wrote: "Certain clothes are prone to becoming commodities, such as white t-shirts, because the construction is relatively" / X
@dieworkwear @selise Ok, I'm back. I have been trying to actually understand your own framework so I can look at your logic as a whole. I don't see a ton of consistency. You wrote
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October 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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⚠️ Trump is signaling he may appear for the Nov. 5 oral arguments in the SCOTUS tariff case.

If the Court okays using IEEPA as a catch-all tariff authority, it would effectively thrash a core constitutional check and balance at Congress’s expense.
U.S. Supreme Court Sets Speedy Hearing on Challenge to Broad Trump Tariff Authority: Unpacking the Issues & Arguments
The U.S. Supreme Court has set a very speedy schedule to hear a case that combines several different challenges of President Trump’s authority to impose his broadest tariffs.
rethinktrade.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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All, I keep telling you to follow @wallachlori.bsky.social and here's why - she's flagging essential news re: Trump's tariffs + the SCOTUS arguments coming up.
Trump, Tariffs & the Supreme Court: What’s at Stake on Nov 4?
YouTube video by Rethink Trade
youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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OUT NOW: Trump may do what no sitting president ever has: attend Supreme Court arguments in November — about his own power.

@wallachlori.bsky.social explain why it matters: youtube.com/shorts/vGCWI...
Trump, Tariffs & the Supreme Court: What’s at Stake on Nov 4?
YouTube video by Rethink Trade
youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Read this! Not as an interesting, well-written story of a guy's awakening, but because its about actionable causes of our current political-economic-social crisis that unite most Americans in anger, which of course is foundational to organizing our way out of our current shit show!
“I used to think that the defining fight for our country was between the left and the right. Now, I am much more worried about the money at the top crushing everyone underneath.”

Must-read from @bedoyausa.bsky.social on his path to becoming a populist — and how economic populism unites👇🧵
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Re: rare earth minerals -

Not yet clear how this episode plays out but decades of over reliance by past US GOP & Dem presidents & other nations on China for especially processing of rare earths/magnet making & related technologies & expertise means China now has monopoly power.
October 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM