The Court of International Trade, which is a court that nobody has ever heard of, moved to block President Trump’s tariffs in a “sweeping ruling,” according to Reuters, that “found the president overstepped his authority by imposing across the board duties on imports from U.S. trading partners.”
The court suggested that the law under which the President of the United States was declaring these tariffs was not, in fact, capable of carrying those tariffs because the president used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which gives the president the power to regulate imports during certain emergency situations.
But those emergency situations do not actually extend to issues such as a trade deficit. Big trade deficits do not amount to a national emergency.
That’s what the court found — and the court isn’t wrong. If the president actually wants to impose…
