作者：布雷安妮·德皮施 | 福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年2月25日 美国东部时间下午6:36
法律专家和评论员周三对总统唐纳德·特朗普的国情咨文演讲措辞谨慎，许多人借此机会评论更广泛的法律和政治氛围，而非特朗普的具体言论。
特朗普演讲中的重大时刻包括他对最高法院以6-3裁决推翻其使用1977年紧急法律对大多数美国贸易伙伴征收关税的回应，以及其政府对美国主要城市暴力犯罪的打击等内容。
“这是美国的黄金时代，”特朗普周二晚上宣称，“你们还没看到最精彩的部分。我们会做得越来越好，越来越好，越来越好。”
在国情咨文中回应最高法院关税裁决时，特朗普语气明显克制，简要称6-3的多数派裁决“令人遗憾”，随后转而强调其政府根据《1974年美国贸易法》第122条在最高法院裁决后不久宣布的10%进口关税。
“几十年来一直占我们便宜的国家现在正向我们支付数万亿美元，”特朗普谈及关税时表示，他此前曾称这些关税对美国经济“生死攸关”。
出席国情咨文的九名最高法院大法官中，包括首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨、大法官埃琳娜·卡根和艾米·科尼·巴雷特，他们此前裁定特朗普不得使用《国际紧急经济权力法》（IEEPA）单方面实施关税。
特朗普的言论与关税裁决后他更为尖锐的表态形成对比——当时他称最高法院“无能”，多数派应“为没有勇气为国家做正确的事而感到羞耻”。
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特朗普在国情咨文中的言论呼应了他根据第122条（允许现任总统在150天内对美国“国际收支赤字”或“基本国际支付问题”征收广泛关税，国会可在150天期满后延长）实施的新关税。
但一些专家质疑使用第122条实施全球广泛关税的合法性，暗示可能面临更多法律挑战。
哈佛大学经济学教授、前国际货币基金组织高级官员吉塔·戈皮纳特在社交媒体上指出：“只要对美国国债和股票有充足需求（目前确实如此），美国就不存在‘支付问题’，可以轻松为贸易逆差融资。”
彼得森国际经济研究所的金伯利·克劳辛和莫里斯·奥布斯特菲尔德周一表示：“首先要注意的是，该法规不适用于当前美国的国际支付状况。事实上，（总统自己的律师在IEEPA案中辩称）第122条不能替代IEEPA，因为国际收支赤字在概念上与特朗普所说的紧急情况相关的经常账户和贸易逆差截然不同。”
此外，参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（纽约州民主党人）誓言其党团不会批准特朗普将关税延长超过150天的请求。
“我们不会延长这些关税，”舒默宣称，并敦促共和党人加入民主党阻止延长。
舒默将关税与食品杂货、汽车和住房成本上涨联系起来。
“美国人正在受苦，因为（特朗普）在提高关税，”舒默表示。
特朗普还在演讲中强调其上任第一年暴力犯罪显著下降，重申政府称2025年美国谋杀率降至125年来最低水平。
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白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特此前向福克斯新闻数字频道及其他媒体援引刑事司法委员会的最新数据称，特朗普“压倒性地兑现了恢复法律与秩序的承诺”。
“刑事司法委员会的研究显示，2025年美国最大城市的谋杀率降至至少1900年以来的最低水平，”利维特告诉记者，“我再强调一遍：这是有记录以来最大的单年谋杀率降幅。”
2026年晚些时候公布的全国凶杀数据可能显示，2025年每10万居民中的杀人案数量降至约4.0起，这是自1900年执法或公共卫生数据记录以来的最低水平，也是有记录以来最大的单年百分比降幅。
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对演讲及特朗普政策的反应各不相同，但总统确实获得了跨党派的一些赞扬。
“作为选民，我可能不喜欢他，可能觉得他的长篇大论很疲惫，但当他讲话时，他从未动摇过美国例外主义，”有演讲稿撰写背景的民主党策略师迈克尔·塞拉索告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“我看到有人保护我们的城市免受他认为的民主威胁，提振经济，管理全球伙伴关系，并击败恐怖主义。”
福克斯新闻数字频道的查理·克里茨、艾玛·科尔顿和迈克尔·鲁伊斯对此报道有贡献。
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6389846977112
Legal experts react to Trump’s SCOTUS clash and tariff pivot in fiery SOTU
By Breanne Deppisch | Fox News
Published February 25, 2026 6:36pm EST
Legal experts and commentators toed a careful line Wednesday in responding to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, with many using the moment to weigh in on the broader legal and political climate itself, rather than Trump’s actual remarks.
Some of the biggest moments of Trump’s address included his response to the Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling that invalidated his use of a 1977 emergency law to impose tariffs on most U.S. trading partners, as well as his administration’s crackdown on violent crime in major U.S. cities, among other things.
“This is the golden age of America,” Trump proclaimed Tuesday night. “And you’ve seen nothing yet. We’re going to do better, and better, and better.”
Trump struck a notably measured tone in responding to the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling during the State of the Union, briefly describing the 6–3 majority decision as “unfortunate” before pivoting to highlight the 10% import fees his administration had announced shortly after the high court’s ruling under Section 122 of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974.
“Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump said of the tariffs, which he previously described as “life or death” for the nation’s economy.
Four of the nine Supreme Court justices present for the State of the Union, including Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who had ruled against Trump’s use of IEEPA to enact his tariffs.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“The good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made” with the U.S., Trump said Tuesday night, “knowing that the legal power that I as president have to make a new deal could be far worse for them.”
“Therefore, they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court’s unfortunate involvement,” he added.
Four of the nine Supreme Court justices present for the State of the Union, including Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who had ruled against Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to unilaterally enact his tariffs.
Trump’s comments marked a shift from his more abrasive tone in the immediate aftermath of the tariff decision, when he said the high court was “incompetent” and that the majority should be “absolutely ashamed” of themselves “for not having the courage to do what’s right for our country.”
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Legal experts and commentators toed a careful line Wednesday in responding to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.(Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump’s remarks during the State of the Union were a nod to his new tariffs he invoked under Section 122, or a statute that allows a sitting president to impose sweeping tariffs for up to 150 days in response to either large or serious U.S. “balance-of-payments deficits,” or in response to situations that pose “fundamental international payments problems” for the U.S. Congress can extend them once the 150-day period ends.
But some experts have questioned the legality of using Section 122 to invoke the broad global tariffs — signaling what could be more legal challenges to come.
Gita Gopinath, Harvard economics professor and former senior International Monetary Fund official, noted on social media: “As long as there is plenty of demand for US debt and equities, which is the case, the US does not have a ‘payments’ problem. It can finance its trade deficits easily.”
“The first thing to note is that the statute does not apply to the current US international payments position,” the Peterson Institute’s Kimberly Clausing and Maurice Obstfeld said Monday. “Indeed, the [president’s own lawyers argued] in the IEEPA case that Section 122 was no substitute for IEEPA, since balance of payment deficits are conceptually distinct from the current account and trade deficits that Trump has characterized as an emergency.”
Separately, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed that his caucus would not approve Trump’s bid to extend tariffs beyond the 150-day period.
“We will not extend those tariffs,” Schumer declared, urging Republicans to join Democrats in blocking them.
Schumer linked the tariffs to higher costs of groceries, cars, and homes.
“Americans are suffering, because (Trump) is raising tariffs,” Schumer said.
Trump also used his remarks to tout the significant drop-off in violent crime during his first year back in the White House, reiterating his administration’s claim that the U.S. murder rate dropped to its lowest point in 125 years in 2025.
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President Donald J. Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress.(Kenny Holston /Pool via Reuters)
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previously pointed Fox News Digital and other outlets to recent data from the Council on Criminal Justice that she said shows that Trump is “delivering overwhelmingly on his promise” to restore law and order in the U.S.
“A study from the Council on Criminal Justice shows that the murder rate across America’s largest cities plummeted in 2025 to its lowest level since at least 1900,” Leavitt told reporters. “Let me repeat to put this in perspective, this marks the largest single-year drop in murders in recorded history.”
Nationwide homicide data released later in 2026 could show killings in 2025 falling to roughly 4.0 per 100,000 residents – the lowest rate ever recorded in law enforcement or public health data dating back to 1900 and the largest single-year percentage drop on record.
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Reactions to the speech — and Trump’s policies — vary, but the president did win some praise from across the aisle.
“As a voter, I may not like him. I may find his long form exhausting. But when he speaks, he never wavers from American exceptionalism,” Michael Ceraso, a Democratic strategist with a background in speechwriting, told Fox News Digital.
“I see someone protecting our cities against those he deems a threat to democracy, revving up the economy, managing global partners, and defeating terrorism.
Fox News Digital’s Charlie Creitz, Emma Colton and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6389846977112
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