LJC In The News
How a Small Wine Company Complicated Trump’s Sweeping Tariff Plans
(The Washington Post)—Victor Schwartz was cooking dinner – a bottle of Vermentino wine already uncorked – when he received the news Wednesday evening. A little-known federal trade court had overturned President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, which had sent shock waves through markets worldwide in recent weeks. And Schwartz’s...
Opinion: A Victory for Separation of Powers
Meet The Little-Known Federal Court That Tried To Upend Trump’s Tariff Agenda
(Tampa Free Press)—Two Republican-appointed judges and a Democrat-appointed judge on a little-known court issued the first ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s tariffs using emergency powers on Wednesday. The United States Court of International Trade (CIT), which sits in New York City, considers only questions related to customs and international trade...
Trump Tariffs Reinstated by Appeals Court as SCOUTS Plea Looms
(Newslooks)—Trump Tariffs Reinstated by Appeals Court as SCOUTS Plea Looms/ Newslooks/ WASHINGTON/ J. Mansour/ Morning Edition/ A federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, blocking a lower court’s ruling that they were unconstitutional. The decision keeps uncertainty high for global trade partners and U.S. companies. Trump is...
Appeals Court Temporarily Reinstates Trump’s Tariff Powers Amid Legal Battle
(Finance 360)—A federal appeals court has temporarily paused a ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) that blocked President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs, reigniting a legal fight over one of his signature economic policies. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued the stay...
U.S. Appeals Court Temporarily Allows Trump to Maintain Tariffs
(Trade World News)—U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that President Donald Trump can temporarily maintain his tariffs under emergency powers. The decision follows the administration’s legal challenge against a prior ruling that had blocked the majority of his key economic policies. The court issued a temporary stay on the...
He Put the Tariffs on, They Took the Tariffs off, They Put the Tariffs on—Economies Are Shaking all About
(World at Large)—Mass uncertainty surrounds the near term future of US-Asian trade, so much so that businesses in some economies including Vietnam are ready to say goodbye to the US market permanently. Then, a US Federal trade court ruled that President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff regime was unconstitutional, and that...
Trump’s Tariffs to Remain in Effect After Appeals Court Grants Stay
(Reuters)—A federal appeals court temporarily reinstated the most sweeping of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Thursday, a day after a U.S. trade court ruled that Trump had exceeded his authority in imposing the duties and ordered an immediate block on them. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal...
Trump Tariff Plan Faces Uncertain Future as Court Battles Intensify
(FOX News)—A federal appeals court paused a lower ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, siding with the administration Thursday in a legal fight over the White House’s use of an emergency law to enact punishing import taxes. The back-and-forth injected more volatility into markets this week after several weeks...
Whiplash! Court Reinstates Trump Tariffs (for Now)
(JCK Online)—As expected, a federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated the bulk of President Trump’s tariffs, less than 24 hours after the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) ordered they be terminated within 10 days. Following an emergency request from the Trump administration, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
Court Rules Against Trump’s Liberation Day Tariffs
(The Federal Newswire)—In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled against the Trump administration’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, declaring them unlawful. The Liberty Justice Center, which challenged these tariffs on behalf of five small businesses in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump, expressed approval of the ruling. The...
Trump Blames Conservative Legal World and One of Its Leaders for Tariff Ruling
(The Washington Post)—President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday night at the conservative legal movement and one of its prominent leaders, Leonard Leo, blaming them for the federal court ruling that blocked most of his tariffs this week. In doing so, Trump deepened a schism with an influential community that was...
How Our Tariff Case Came About
(Reason)—Since our win in the tariff case before the US Court of International Trade a couple days ago, there have been several informative media articles about the history of the case, and how the Liberty Justice Center and I decided to undertake it, and found our clients. In this post,...
The Week That Proved Trump Is Far From Invincible
(The Nation)—There are weeks when, it seems, everything comes to a head. This week could well be viewed, in hindsight, as one of those—as the moment the wheels started to come off the Trump train. On Wednesday, a panel of federal judges for the US Court of International Trade ruled...
Appeals Court Lifts Block on Trump’s Global Tariffs
(The Carolina Journal)—A federal circuit US Court of Appeals has lifted the block on Trump’s global tariffs that was issued in rulings by the US Court of International Trade earlier this week. “The court’s ruling—and now the legal back-and-forth—highlights exactly what’s wrong with the Trump Administration’s yo-yoing approach to tariffs,”...