Prof. Jack Goldsmith (Harvard) on “The Weaknesses in the Trump Tariff Rulings”
A very interesting item in the Executive Functions substack newsletter, written by a leading expert on Presidential power:
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) did not authorize President Trump’s sprawling tariff policies and permanently enjoined them. On Thursday a federal district court in the District of Columbia reached the same conclusion about IEEPA for different reasons, and issued a preliminary injunction.
Before these rulings, I disagreed with most of the commentary on Trump’s IEEPA sanctions and thought that the legal issues here were hard and close. Neither ruling convinced me otherwise. In what follows I explain why, though I must be necessarily selective in addressing complicated opinions chock full of technical arguments.
As I explain in the end, I think the lawfulness of Tru
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