Donald isn’t gonna get the ‘steal’ on American consumers and Businesses without ANOTHER legal fight since he lost round one from the Supreme’s….
Tariff’s ARE IMPORT Taxes and Treaties…
The US Congress sets Taxes and Treaties in America….
NOT the President…..
Just three weeks after the Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a stinging defeat over the sweeping tariffs he imposed last year, the legal battle over his first move to replace those import taxes is heating up.
Democratic attorneys general and governors from 24 states and a libertarian group representing two small businesses filed their first legal briefs Friday asking a federal trade court to strike down the 10 percent tariffs Trump imposed on most U.S. trading partners in February.
Trump promised to hike those tariffs to 15 percent, but hasn’t yet done so.
Legal experts told POLITICO that Trump’s backup tariffs are probably on stronger legal footing than the “Liberation Day” taxes the high court struck down.
Despite that, his challengers are exuding bravado about their chances.
“We are 100 percent confident that we will be successful in the Court of International Trade,” New York Attorney General Letitia James told reporterslast week.
Trump is also projecting confidence, repeatedly claiming that the same Supreme Court went ahead and blessed his use of other authorities, like the so-called Section 122 tariffs he’s turned to as a short-term fix.
That is not true. While the three justices who dissented from last month’s decision did cite Section 122 as one of the tools Trump could use to rebuild his tariff scheme, the court’s six-justice majority explicitly declined to embrace that position. “We do not speculate on hypothetical cases not before us,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.
While Trump called his new approach “time tested,” that authority has never been invoked before and the high court has not given its blessing to Trump using that specific law in the current circumstances…..
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