Businesses, conservative lawyers planning legal challenge to Trump's tariffs

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Source: ABC News

April 7, 2025, 10:08 AM


A group of business groups and conservative lawyers are preparing a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's tariffs, arguing he does not have the legal authority to impose them. Sources familiar with the effort say they are preparing to file the challenge in the coming weeks, possibly as soon as this Friday.

One prominent legal figure close to Trump told ABC News there is "a very good chance" the U.S. Supreme Court would find Trump's tariffs unconstitutional.

The issue is this: Congress, not the president, has the power to impose taxes and regulate trade. In imposing these tariffs, President Trump cited the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which gives the the president power to regulate international commerce in the event of a national emergency.

But the IEEPA -- which specifically cites the power to impose sanctions and seize foreign assets -- does not mention tariffs. And, even if one argues the right to impose tariffs is implied, it's not clear what "national emergency" could justify the imposition of global tariffs.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/businesses-conservative-lawyers-planning-legal-challenge-trumps-tariffs/story?id=120558257

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1. But the orange menace says they are cookoo bananas.

[GoreWon2000]

2. Glad to see this lawsuit

Its pretty clear that tRump's tariffs are unconstitutional. The disastrous 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs were passed by Congress. Whether or not the maga SCOTUS majority will uphold the constitution is another matter.

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3. He's slowly being isolated and exposed as an idiot

Better late than never.

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4. They were all 100% complicit

in voting for their "Frankenstein's Monster" now they are all screaming their heads off, not truly having a solution to their situation now that he has turned on them too........

They consider themselves so smart, but obviously not intelligent enough to have realized that THEY TOO would be thrown under the bus as soon as he got elected, using their tsunami of campaign cash and corruption to win the presidency.....(he is already throwing his voters under the bus, and they are getting screwed just like everyone else and are stunned to wake up to that fact)

Next up???????? How about all the Reubublican House Members, the Republican Senators, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
They haven't figured out, as of yet, that there is no Legislative Branch or Judicial Branch in a dictatorship/tyranny.......