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Patricia Murphy: Meet the mom and small business owner suing Trump over tariffs

May 9, 2025
On any other week before Mother’s Day, author and small business owner Emily Ley would probably be shuttling her three kids between carpools, leading a meeting for her company, or working on a creative project, like editing her latest cookbook… Ley posted a message to her Instagram account explaining how the tariffs are impacting small…
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Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People of 2025

May 7, 2025
Mark Chenoweth New Civil Liberties Alliance President and General Counsel Legal observers recognized Chenoweth and his team for leading the court battle to overturn the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ bump-stock ban. He hailed it as a victory in restraining the power of a federal agency to redefine a law’s scope. Education: Yale; University…
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Tariff Challengers Really Don’t Want Their Cases Heard in New York City

May 7, 2025
Businesses and an indigenous tribe fighting President Donald Trump’s tariffs are pushing to keep their cases in Florida and Montana—and away from New York, whose U.S. Court of International Trade has already refused to pause the duties for review. The Trump administration has pushed to transfer those cases to the trade court, which, under 28…
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Game maker challenges Trump's tariffs as lawsuits pile up

April 25, 2025
A public-interest law firm filed a lawsuit challenging the president’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs, at least the fifth such lawsuit since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs… Pacific Legal Foundation isn’t alone. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, Tranel Law, and Liberty Justice Center have filed similar suits. California also filed suit. Arizona and Oregon did…
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‘An Enormous Usurpation’: Inside the Case Against Trump’s Tariffs

April 21, 2025
The Trump administration’s trade war has prompted chaos and countermeasures across the globe, but a potent counterattack has emerged in the courts in recent weeks — and in the long run, it could fatally undermine President Donald Trump’s unprecedented global tariff regime. California Gov. Gavin Newsom was the latest to join the fray with a lawsuit in…
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OPINION: No tariffs without representation

April 20, 2025
When President Trump announced in February that he was imposing stiff new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China, he said his power to do so came from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, a law passed by Congress in 1977. Two months later he again invoked that statute as he unveiled…
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