‘An Enormous Usurpation’: Inside the Case Against Trump’s Tariffs

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 federal court in California, a development that has already prompted public wrangling between Newsom and the administration. He follows plaintiffs in at least three separate federal suits — by members of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana, the New Civil Liberties Alliance in Florida and the Liberty Justice Center in the U.S. Court of International Trade. All three cases take direct aim at the Trump administration’s reliance on the once-obscure International Economic Emergency Powers Act…

April 21, 2025

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Originally Published in Politico