Pacific Legal Foundation Files Case Challenging Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs
The Pacific Legal Foundation (major libertarian public interest law firm) has filed a case challenging Trump’s awful IEEPA tariffs, with the awesome name of Princess Awesome v. CBP. Their case is similar to the one filed earlier by Liberty Justice Center and myself.
I welcome PLF to the fight. They are a long-established public interest law firm that has won numerous cases, including before the Supreme Court [full disclosure: they are also my wife’s employer, though she is not one of the attorneys on this case].
Like us, PLF is filing in the US Court of International Trade, representing US businesses that import goods from the countries hit by Trump’s massive tariffs. Like us, they argue that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) doesn’t authorize tariffs at all, that the trade deficits that supposedly justify the “Liberation Day” tariffs are not an “unusual and extraordinary threat” (which IEEPA says must be present to allow use of the law), and that Trump administration’s position runs afoul of constitutional nondelegation rules. Their complaint, unlike ours, does not make use of the “major questions doctrine.” But I suspect they might raise it eventually.
I cover these and other reasons why the Trump IEEPA tariffs are illegal in more detail in my Lawf
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