12 States Sue Against Tariffs in Court of International Trade

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Twelve states filed a lawsuit in the federal Court of International Trade to halt Donald Trump’s tariff policies on the grounds that they are unlawful and are wreaking havoc on the economy.

The states jointly suing are Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Vermont.

They assert that the power to impose tariffs resides in Congress, and the President can only invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to borrow that power when the country faces an “unusual and extraordinary threat” from abroad which was not the case. They ask the court to rule his tariffs are illegal and bar enforcement of them to free the nation from tariffs Trump is imposing based on “whims rather than the sound exercise of lawful authority.”

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