{"id":41151,"date":"2026-02-23T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41151"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:14:48","slug":"brent-nelsen-comments-on-supreme-court-ruling-on-tarriffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-comments-on-supreme-court-ruling-on-tarriffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen comments on Supreme Court&#8217;s tariff ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2026\/02\/20\/political-analyst-scotus-tariff-ruling\/\">FOX Carolina News<\/a> anchor Justin Dougherty about the Supreme Court&#8217;s 6-3 ruling against the Trump administration&#8217;s global tariff action. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International affairs, said the court ruled that the authority to levy tariffs rests squarely on Congress and that President Trump&#8217;s move to increase tariffs across the board was unconstitutional. Nelsen had more to say about what comes next and how the Trump administration will likely respond to the Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman politics expert Brent Nelsen has a conversation with FOX Carolina about the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision on tariffs, what might happen next, and how the Trump administration will likely respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41151"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41711,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41151\/revisions\/41711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}