The University of Washington has won at least temporary relief from President Donald Trump’s 10% global tariffs after a federal trade court ruled the administration misapplied the law. Jeff breaks down the latest decision with ABC’s Steven Portnoy, including why the Court of International Trade said the White House misread an outdated trade statute, why the ruling applies specifically to Washington and a handful of other plaintiffs, and what it could mean for future challenges to Trump’s tariff strategy.
PLUS: The battle over congressional maps is heating up after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act. Tennessee has moved quickly to redraw its districts, and now some Washington Democrats are openly debating whether the state should respond in kind. Jeff looks at why that would be far easier said than done, how Washington’s independent redistricting system complicates any retaliation and why Democratic leaders themselves are warning that the votes to change it likely do not exist.
AND: After more than two decades in Olympia, state Rep. Larry Springer (D-Kirkland) says he is stepping away, and he is leaving with some blunt criticism of his own party. Jeff talks with Springer about why moderate Democrats are harder to find, why he thinks the Legislature has grown less friendly to business and why he still backed the state’s new millionaire’s tax. The episode also closes by remembering former state Rep. Eric Robertson (R-Sumner), a lawmaker colleagues in both parties say built friendships even across sharp political divides.
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