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Victor Owen Schwartz

Victor Owen Schwartz

Sep 17, 2026

SarahHOST
13:48
I could
13:48
just go on and on and on talking about this whole tariff case.
13:51
It's the IE book, right? Yes.
13:53
International Economic Emergency Powers Act, okay? IE book does not mention tariffs.
14:00
That's the strongest case.
14:04
There's also something, a concept, which came out under the Biden administration called major decisions, major issues doctrine.
14:17
Major decisions doctrine, I think is what it's called.
SarahHOST
19:00
So how do you see this playing out?
2:20
Victor Owen Schwartz is the owner of Voss Selections.
2:24
You know, I only started on the journey with the idea of talking to Ilya Somin, who's one of the co-counsels.
2:31
He's a professor of law at the, uh, Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University.
2:38
And I just got in touch with him because of a family member telling me that he was fighting the tariffs, and I said, "Wow, you know, I'm in the wine, uh, and spirits import and distribution business," and I felt, God, if there's any- ever an industry that is the canary in the coal mine, it's us.
2:54
And I just got on the phone and, and got to speak to Ilya, uh, who's a wonderful person, and, uh, very, very smart, and, uh, just to tell him what was going on in my industry.
3:06
I had no idea.
3:07
I didn't know IEEPA from my elbow, [chuckles] you know? So, I mean, I didn't know any of these things, and I didn't even know that the tariffs were illegal.
3:22
How did the IEEPA tariffs impact you, and how did that change your business over the past year, having to handle those tariffs?

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1:50
Victor Owen Schwartz is the owner of Voss Selections.
1:54
You know, I only started on the journey with the idea of talking to Ilya Somin, who's one of the co-counsels.
2:01
He's a professor of law at the, uh, Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University.
2:08
And I just got in touch with him because of a family member telling me that he was fighting the tariffs, and I said, "Wow, you know, I'm in the wine, uh, and spirits import and distribution business." And I felt, God, if there's any- ever an industry that is the canary in the coal mine, it's us.
2:24
And I just got on the phone and, and got to speak to Ilya, uh, who's a wonderful person, and, uh, very, very smart, and, uh, just to tell him what was going on in my industry.
2:36
I had no idea.
2:37
I didn't know IEEPA from my elbow, [laughs] you know? So, I mean, I didn't know any of these things, and I didn't even know that the tariffs were illegal.
2:52
How did the IEEPA tariffs impact you, and how did that change your business over the past year, having to handle those tariffs?

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