TODAY: Court Hears Blue States’ Challenge To Tariffs

Reuters reports:

Twelve U.S. states will ask a federal court on Wednesday to halt President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, arguing that he overstepped his authority by declaring a national emergency to impose across-the-board taxes on imports from nations that sell more to the U.S. than they buy.

A three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based Court of International Trade will hear arguments in a lawsuit brought by the Democratic attorneys general of New York, Illinois, Oregon, and nine other states. They say the Republican president has sought a “blank check” to regulate trade “at his whim.”

The Capital Press reports:

U.S. House Democrats submitted a brief urging a federal court to repeal President Donald Trump’s tariffs, calling the taxes on imports “mercurial” and beyond any import duties authorized by Congress.

The friend-of-the-court brief was signed by 148 lawmakers, including several from Oregon and Washington, and filed May 16 with the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York.

Congress has placed limits on a president’s power to impose tariffs, and Trump has broken them, according to the brief. “Tax and trade are core congressional prerogatives,” the brief reads.

The hearing is expected to start at 10am.

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— Reuters (@reuters.com) May 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM