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Trump’s Tariffs Could Face Long Odds Before Supreme Court He Reshaped
(CBS News)—Legal challenges to President Trump’s tariffs could put the president on a collision course with a Supreme Court that he shaped, as his use of emergency power to unilaterally impose the levies could run into legal doctrines championed by the conservative justices to limit executive authority. Several things have...
Arguments Heard in Court Case That Aims To Have Trump’s Tariffs Kiboshed
(ASI Central)—A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade in New York heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit that aims to have President Donald Trump’s import tariffs abolished. Liberty Justice Center, a Libertarian public interest law firm representing five U.S. small businesses, argued that Trump lacks the legal authority...
CIT Judges Sharply Question Legality of Reciprocal Tariffs During Hearing
(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 Jeffrey Schwab, and...
Trump Tariff Rollbacks Undermine Legal Justification, Court Told
(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 April 2 executive...
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
(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 a law known...
Trade Court Takes Up Legality of Trump’s Tariffs
(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 Oregon Attorney General...
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
(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...