LJC In The News
CIT Judges Sharply Question Legality of Reciprocal Tariffs During Hearing
Author: Jacob Kopnick (Trade Law Daily)—The Court of International Trade on May 13 heard arguments in the lead case on the president’s ability to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Judges Jane Restani, Gary Katzmann and Timothy Reif pressed counsel for the plaintiffs, the Liberty Justice Center’s...
Trump Tariff Rollbacks Undermine Legal Justification, Court Told
Author: Oliver Ward (Agri-Pulse)—Legal representatives for a group of small businesses challenging President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs at the Court of International Trade argued that the administration’s tariff pause undermines its claim that the newduties are necessary to remedy an economic emergency. The president declared an economic emergency in his...
Trump’s Tariffs Face Legal Challenges
(Altoona Mirror)—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’s Authority to Declare Tariffs ‘Emergency’ Challenged in First Court Hearing
Author: Jack Birle (Washington Exmainer)—President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariff policy faced its first full hearing in court on Tuesday after a group of small businesses challenged the president’s authority to issue the levies. The hearing in the U.S. Court of International Trade was the first test of Trump’s claim that...
Trade Court Takes Up Legality of Trump’s Tariffs
Author: Don Jenkins (Capital Press)—President Trump’s tariffs were in court May 13 as the U.S. Court of International Trade held the first hearing on the legality of the president’s tool for reshaping U.S. trade policy. Numerous lawsuits, including one filed in the same court by a blue-state coalition led by...
Trump’s Global Tariffs Face Key Test in US Trade Court
(Bloomberg)—A group of small businesses urged the US trade court to block President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” global tariffs during a court hearing that could have a major impact on the Republican’s economic agenda. Lawyers for the businesses and the Trump administration on Tuesday delivered arguments before the US Court...
The First Federal Court Hearing on Trump’s Tariffs Did Not Go So Well for Trump
Author: Ian Millhiser (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....
Court of International Trade Panel Doubts Trump Authority for ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs
Author: Ryan Knappenberger (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...
The Case That Could Blow Up Trump’s Tariff Plan
Author: Ankush Khardori (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...
Trump Tariffs Tested in Court as Challengers Seek to Block Them
Authors: Zach Schonfeld and Ella Lee (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...
Thoughts on Today’s Oral Argument in Our Case Against Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs
Author: Ilya Somin (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...
Trade Court Asks if Trump Could Declare Peanut Butter Emergency to Impose More Tariffs
Author: Alyssa Aquino (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...
Small Businesses Call Trump’s Tariffs ‘Unlawful,’ Urge Federal Trade Court to Block Them
Author: Bart Jansen (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...
Lawyer Calls Trump Tariffs ‘Unlawful’ as They Face 1st Test Against Small Businesses
Author: Peter Charalambous (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...
Trump Trade War Faces Legal Challenge as Businesses, States Argue His Tariffs Exceeded His Power
Authors: Paul Wiseman and Lindsay Whitehurst (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...