Federal court blocks Trump from imposing
sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law

Another lower court, but this time one seemingly with relevant jurisdiction.

"The plaintiffs argued that the emergency powers law does not authorize the use of tariffs, and [even if it did], the trade deficit is not an emergency because the U.S. has run a trade deficit with the rest of the world for 49 consecutive years." Well, by that logic. . .

"Will no one free us of these turbulent courts?" /sarc=off

The time has come. President Trump MUST defy this court and state openly why a President must do so. No country can rationally conduct international commerce, much less any other administrative function of its chief executive can be vetoed by random judges. Thus far, Trump has patiently deferred taken unilateral action allowing judicial processes to take their course in the hope that the Supreme Court will take corrective action to rein in activist judges. But it's clear now that the Student Court refuses to do so. This cannot go on any longer. The President MUST act.

...Supreme Court...(although Student Court does seem to describe them more accurately these days)

Well Justices... How're you gonna enforce your Asinine ruling, exactly? Take a Hike!

First time in history this court has ruled against a President.

Federal judges, is there anything they don't know or can't do?

#5, that is funny because it seems like that at times. I do have a question concerning comments by #2. If the plaintiffs were arguing that the emergency powers law does not authorize the use of tariffs, I must not be understanding. We know there are tariffs in place already - so how did those become authorized to use? Like I said, I may not understand all of the legalistic processes but. . .

Each day that goes by, which brings us yet another "Black-robed god," trying to "indentify as" the President, provides further support for my theory that the only way for the REAL President to combat this Democrat whack-a-mole, Judge-surrection is for the Commander In Chief to declare the U.S. under Martial Law. In so-doing, he bypasses the Courts entirely allowing the Executive Branch to accomplish the following; 1) Deport 20-30 million Illegal Invaders dating back 30 years, or more, 2) Revoke ANY Citizenship falsely granted to illegals. Our Federal government cannot substitute "emotions," for ANY of our laws! 2) Clean house throughout Federal and States Judiciaries, Bar Associations, Professional Health Associations, Educational Institutions, etc. to clean out anti-American, Communist propagandists, and ultra-partisan Democrat hacks. 3) ...

The usual wah-wah from the AssPress.

I am sure this will be appealed. But while the appeal proceeds The President must charge ahead at full speed.

These teeney weenie Federal courts need to have their liberal judges reined in and stop acting like they control everything ..... way past time...

The Executive Branch of our country deals with economic issues of which tariffs are one. They are way out of line on this and need to step back. We are facing a Constitutional crisis with the courts overstepping their bounds. Tis needs to stop.

Trump should ignore the courts and move full-steam ahead with tariffs and all of his policies.

If Trump defies the courts, he will be impeached and thrown out of office. He knows that, which is why he is patiently waiting for the Supremes to put limits on the lower courts.

The Executive Branch gets to decide what is an emergency, NOT some third rate judge. If the Congress, who delegated the power to the Executive Branch disagrees they are perfectly capable of taking that power back. The Judicial Branch is WAY out of it's lane on this one, AS USUAL.

Enough already! Our country is being run by unelected judges.

I'll believe it...when I see it....President Trump has been in business for 50 years and I'm sure he's run into stiff necked combatants before...it goes with big business....everything is negotiable ....are you listening Putin the secret is ...never upset...not the word I wanted to use...the other party....there is a limit as to what will be tolerated.....the democratic plan to keep President Trump in court isn't frightening anyone...WE know their game....

Const. Art. I, Sec. 8, par. 1: "Congress shall have the Power to lay taxes, duties, imposts, and excises...,to regulate commerce with foreign nations...(and) to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court...". By enacting IEEPA, Congress gave presidents emergency powers over tariffs. The U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled Trump's tariffs lack justification as emergency action. As an inferior tribunal, its ruling may be reviewed by the Supreme Court. At the end of the day, Congress is still has the power to enact and repeal laws involving foreign commerce. Given the Republican majority in both houses, there seems little chance of any new legislation surviving a veto.

I wonder how many more flat, moist rocks hiding previously unnoted federal courts still lurk in the deep woods. These creatures of Congress will continue to appear over the next three years. The Sorcerer‘s Apprentice comes to mind.

The USA is in the middle of negotiations with the European Union, China Japan, India and 100 other Nations. This attack makes US much weaker negotiators.

Federal Courrt of Appeals just reinstated the tariffs for now, reversing US Court of International Trade (never heard of it before, BTW) stay on all tariffs. Administration is still seeking emergency relief from SCOTUS.

#20 gets it exactly right. Under the Constitution, the President of the United States has no constitutional authority to impose taxes or tariffs. Congress has delegated limited tariff authority to the President by legislation. Whether that's a good or bad thing, or even constitutional, is a separate question. Under that Congressional delegation, the President can raise tariffs unilaterally in what amounts to an emergency situation. I happen to agree with the court's opinion that President Trump has been using this power too broadly and these emergencies as a pretext to impose his vision of what tariffs can and should do for ouofcountry. Having said all that, just as the Constitution gives the President no power to impose tariffs except as delegated by congressional legislation, it also gives the courts no power to impose their will on executive and legislative branches. I oppose on principle this issue being decided by a court. The correct mechanism to correcting President Trump's use of the tariff powers granted him by Congress is for Congress to act. Since Congress is currently Republican, it likely will not. If voters are unhappy with President Trump's tariffs, they will let Congress know in less than 2 years, and then we will see.

The full court has already overruled this for Trump.

This should be easy. Our country was made great initially, due to our Constitution and our nation's adherence to it. It provided the governing framework for national greatness, unlike any other in the world. We drifted and became not-so-great, a condition that Trump, I believe sincerely adopted as his political mantra, making America great again. To be great again, we have to adhere to our supreme law of the land, which within its Article 1, gives the power and authority for taxing and spending exclusively to Congress. That taxing power included duties, excises, and imposts, which collectively became known as tariffs, a form of taxation on imports or exports intended to be imposed through our deliberative bodies in Congress. Later, several public laws, enacted by Congress and signed by various presidents, delegated limited, specific power and authority for imposing tariffs to the Executive, whose enumerated powers and authorities are found in Article 2, but the limited delegation came with certain conditions to be met; however, no public law overrides the Constitution and our Supreme Court has been empowered to adjudicate such legal distinctions, occasionally throughout our nation's history, declaring certain laws as unconstitutional. No president is authorized by our Constitution or any public law enacted under our constitutional provisions, has the power or authority to take on the roll of deciding general tariff provisions. That power and authority resides with Congress and the authority delegated to a president is conditional with strings attached. In other words in response to the importation of synthetic opioids, from specific countries, certain tariff actions are likely justified but declaring new tariffs on the importation of Toyotas, Volkswagen's, Volvos, and Jaguars, for example, is likely not justified by either our constitution or one of several public laws dealing with delegated tariff authority. The article indicates that the ruling did not come from a district judge in Poughkeepsie but from a three judge panel of the U. S. Court of International Trade. Nothing prevents Trump from enlisting his supporters in Congress to push through Trump's vision of tariffs and trade negotiations as the House did with his preferred budget legislation. Our system of government works well when we follow the framework birthed over 200 years ago by true visionaries. The amendment process doesn't entertain 'flavor of the day' notions but is there to deal with modern realities and/or the need to further clarify some of our more contentious rights as expressed in the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights. The 2nd amendment and birthright citizenship are two that come to mind as far as clarifying language. Moving general tariff authority exclusively to the Executive Branch and issues around due process for illegal alien deportation would appear to require their own amendments, which our representative democracy can address as our Founders intended.