Trump, tariffs and Court order
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The looming legal fight injects uncertainty into President Donald Trump's evolving tariffs plan, which has upended the global economy since April 2.
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President Trump criticized a recent court ruling on his tariff plan on Thursday. He directed criticism to the Federalist Society and expressed disappointment in judicial nominations.
The administration had made immediate appeals to allow the U.S. to keep imposing stiff levies, and said the Supreme Court needed to intervene.
The Trump administration appealed a ruling by a federal trade court invalidating many of the president’s recent tariffs.
GOP lawmakers are quietly hopeful that Trump’s damaging tariff plans will end with decisive Supreme Court decision.
President Donald Trump’s tariffs are back on, for now. Why? An appeals court paused a little-known lower court’s order to halt most tariffs. But a pair of legal setbacks this week have blown a big hole in Trump’s trade war strategy.
The blockbuster federal court ruling that halts President Donald Trump from imposing some of his most sweeping tariffs rests in part on a legal theory that conservative groups repeatedly used at the Supreme Court to block former President Joe Biden’s agenda.