‘Judges continue to decide cases against Tr*mp, with a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade ruling today that President Donald J. Tr*mp’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs are illegal.

The judges, one appointed by President Ronald Reagan, one by President Barack Obama, and one by Tr*mp himself, noted that the U.S. Constitution gives exclusively to Congress the power to impose tariffs. In 1977, Congress passed the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, often abbreviated as IEEPA, delegating to the president the power to adjust tariffs in times of national emergency, but Tr*mp has used that power far beyond what the Constitution will permit.

Since he took office on January 20, 2025, the judges noted, Tr*mp “has declared several national emergencies and imposed various tariffs in response.” But the IEEPA has “meaningful limits,” the court writes, and “an unlimited delegation of tariff authority would be unconstitutional.” The court blocked all the tariffs Tr*mp imposed under the IEEPA, thus ending Tr*mp‘s tariff spree, although the administration will appeal…’ via Heather Cox Richardson