LJC In The News

Author: David Propper (New York Post)—A federal court shot down most of President Trump’s wide-reaching tariffs Wednesday, ruling the commander in chief exceeded his authority when he plowed ahead with one of his signature policies. The three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade in Manhattan assailed Trump’s actions against...

Author: Phillip Magness (Independent Institute)—The United States Court of International Trade (USCIT) has issued a sweeping ruling against the Trump administration’s so-called “liberation day” tariff policies. The ruling holds that Trump exceeded his statutory authority by unilaterally imposing tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977. It...

Authors: Erik Larson, Josh Wingrove (Bloomberg)—The vast majority of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of his economic agenda. A panel of three judges at the US Court of International Trade in Manhattan issued...

Author: Ryan Knappenberger (Courthouse News Service)—A Court of International Trade panel ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump did not have the authority to levy blanket tariffs against foreign trade partners under a Nixon-era statute intended to define the executive’s role over economic transactions during a national emergency. “The question in...

Authors: Lindsay Whitehurst, Josh Boak (Associated Press)—A federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law, swiftly throwing into doubt Trump’s signature set of economic policies that have rattled global financial markets, frustrated trade partners and raised broader fears about inflation...

Author: Eric Boehm (Reason)—The U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday evening struck down President Donald Trump’s use of emergency executive powers to impose tariffs on nearly all imports. The ruling includes an injunction that immediately blocks the collection of tariffs Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...

Authors: Tony Romm, Ana Swanson (New York Times)—A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, finding that federal law did not grant him “unbounded authority” to tax imports from nearly every country around the...

Author: Zach Schonfeld (The Hill)—A federal court ruled Wednesday that an emergency law does not provide President Trump with unilateral authority to impose tariffs on nearly every country, blocking a series of tariff announcements dating back to February that have rattled financial markets. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court...

Authors: James Fanelli, Gavin Bade (Wall Street Journal)—A federal trade court ruled President Trump didn’t have the authority to impose sweeping tariffs on virtually every nation, voiding the levies that have sparked a global trade war and threatened to upend the world economy. The decision on Wednesday from the Court...

Authors: Ramishah Maruf, David Goldman (CNN)—A federal court on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have raised the cost of imports for everyone from giant businesses to everyday Americans. But the administration immediately appealed the decision on Wednesday night, leaving the situation...

Authors: Katherine Faulders, Peter Charalambous, Steven Portnoy (ABC News)—A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily delayed Wednesday’s court order blocking President Donald Trump’s tariffs, reinstating them at least for the time being. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an administrative stay of the decision while...