Recently, two federal courts ruled against the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. While a three judge panel of the Court of International Trade assumed that the president could theoretically impose tariffs under the act, it nonetheless issued a unanimous opinion setting aside an array of tariffs President Donald Trump had imposed since his self-proclaimed Liberation Day, concluding that he had exceeded the tariff authority Congress gave him under the act.
On the heels of that decision, a federal district court judge in the District of Columbia issued an opinion ruling that the act does not authorize the president to impose tariffs.
The tariffs are just the latest Trump administration priority to receive unfavorable treatment from a trial court.
The administration has already filed an appeal of the…
