LJC In The News
The First Federal Court Hearing on Trump’s Tariffs Did Not Go So Well for Trump
(Vox)—A federal court held the very first hearing on President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging, so-called Liberation Day tariffs on Tuesday, offering the earliest window into whether those tariffs — and potentially all of the shifting tariffs Trump has imposed since he retook office — will be struck down. The case is...
Court of International Trade Panel Doubts Trump Authority for ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
(Courthouse News Service)—A three-judge panel appeared skeptical Tuesday that President Donald Trump had the authority to impose blanket tariffs against foreign trade partners under a Nixon-era statute intended to define the president’s role over economic transactions following the declaration of a national emergency. Trump has touted his tariffs as a...
The Case That Could Blow Up Trump’s Tariff Plan
(Politico)—The U.S. Court of International Trade isn’t typically a major focus of the political world. But today, a three-judge panel on the court held the first oral argument in the cases challenging the legal basis for the Trump administration’s tariff framework, moving closer to a decision that could have major...
Trump Tariffs Tested in Court as Challengers Seek to Block Them
(The Hill)—President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs faced their most significant legal scrutiny yet Tuesday as a group of small businesses asserted to a three-judge panel that Trump exceeded his authority. The New York-based U.S. Court of International Trade spent most of Tuesday’s two-hour argument questioning how it could draw a...
Thoughts on Today’s Oral Argument in Our Case Against Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs
(Reason)—Earlier today, a three-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade heard oral arguments in the case challenging Donald Trump’s massive “Liberation Day” tariffs brought by the Liberty Justice Center and myself on behalf five US businesses harmed by the tariffs. The Administration claims that the President’s imposition of...
Trade Court Asks if Trump Could Declare Peanut Butter Emergency to Impose More Tariffs
(Law.com)—Federal government lawyers appeared hard-pressed to define the limits of President Donald Trump’s trade powers during a Tuesday hearing over his so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs, with one U.S. Court of International Trade judge asking hypothetically if Trump could use a peanut butter shortage as a reason to issue more tariffs....
Small Businesses Call Trump’s Tariffs ‘Unlawful,’ Urge Federal Trade Court to Block Them
(USA Today)—Five small businesses called President Donald Trump’s tariffs an illegal power grab and urged a federal trade court to block them, but government lawyers contend presidents have been imposing tariffs since the country’s infancy. The U.S. Court of International Trade already rejected a request from the businesses on April...
Lawyer Calls Trump Tariffs ‘Unlawful’ as They Face 1st Test Against Small Businesses
(ABC News)—President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs are an “unprecedented and unlawful expansion” of executive power, a lawyer for a group of small businesses told a federal court Tuesday morning. The hearing at the Court of International Trade in Manhattan marks the first time a federal court has taken up the...
Trump Trade War Faces Legal Challenge as Businesses, States Argue His Tariffs Exceeded His Power
(Associated Press)—President Donald Trump is waging a trade war without getting approval from Congress: He declared a national emergency to slap import taxes — tariffs — on almost every country on earth. The president is now facing at least seven lawsuits that argue he’s gone too far and asserted power...
Trump Tariffs Face Major Legal Hurdle as Federal Trade Court Hears Challenge
(CNBC)—A little-known federal court is set to hear arguments Tuesday in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s tariffs, putting a key plank of his economic agenda under the legal microscope for the first time. A panel of three judges at the U.S. Court of International Trade will consider whether Trump...
US Court to Weigh Small Business Bid to Block Trump Tariffs
(Reuters)—Five American small businesses will ask a U.S. court on Tuesday to halt President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, arguing the president overstepped his authority by declaring a national emergency to impose across-the-board taxes on imports from nations that sell more to the U.S. than they buy. Tuesday’s hearing before...
Scandal Recap: Stacy Davis Gates’ Leadership of Chicago Teachers Union
(Illinois Policy)—Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates has said some wild things, made enemies at other unions, prompted her members to sue, ran a deficit, didn’t pay her taxes or utilities and sent her son to private school instead of letting her members educate him. She faces a union...
The Tariff Strategy is Backfiring and Small Businesses are the Collateral Damage
(Fortune)—The White House just wrapped up a victory lap for National Small Business Week, complete with talk of “unleashing opportunity” and “pro-growth” tariffs. But here’s the thing: If you’ve actually run a business in the last five years, not just written a speech about one, you know that’s not how...
How Trump’s Trade War Could End By June
(Politico)—President Donald Trump’s trade war could come to an abrupt halt this month — even without concessions from dozens of trading partners. It’s up to the U.S. Court of International Trade, an obscure, New York-based federal court that decides cases related to trade and customs law. The court is hearing...
This Obscure New York Court Is Set to Decide Fate of Trump’s Tariffs
(Wall Street Journal)—The Trump administration’s global tariffs face their first major legal test this week when a little-known Manhattan court considers one of the president’s most sweeping assertions of executive power. A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade will hear arguments Tuesday on whether to halt the levies,...