President Trump suffered an embarrassing, although perhaps temporary, blow to his tariff agenda this week, when the U.S. Court of International Trade froze most of the Trump Administration’s tariffs on Wednesday.
According to CBS News, the ruling blocks both the “Liberation Day” tariffs and the separately announced levies on Canada, Mexico, and China. The Administration has already announced that it will appeal the ruling, with CNBC reporting Thursday that the Administration might ask the Supreme Court for a ruling as soon as Friday.
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Stephen Miller declared that “we are living under a judicial tyranny,” which is typically the response from the Trump Administration to court rulings that don’t go its way. At the same time, Peter Navarro called the court “globalist” and “pro-importer.”
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“We have these unelected judges who are trying to force their own will when it comes to tax policy, trade policy, and all matters of the economy,” Jason Miller, another sometime Trump adviser, said on Fox Business, as reported by CNBC. The ruling, however, sent stocks soaring.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed by several Democratic states, which argued that the tariffs are not lawful.
“Today’s court order is a victory not just for Oregon but for working families, small businesses, and everyday Americans. President Trump’s sweeping tariffs were unlawful, reckless, and economically devastating,” Oregon’s Attorney General Dan Rayfield, one of the plaintiffs, said after the ruling. “We brought this case because the Constitution doesn’t give any president unchecked authority to upend the economy. This ruling reaffirms that our laws matter and that trade decisions can’t be made on the president’s whim.”
Weighing in on the opposite end was MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, who declared on his show Wednesday that, once markets opened on Thursday, “the world will reset itself around the restoration of law and order in international trade and the crushing of the Trump tariffs and resultant personal, worldwide humiliation of Donald Trump.”
He went on to call Trump’s tariff plans “completely illegal” and “constitutionally insane.”
O’Donnell’s monologue appears to accept the notion that the court ruling will stand, and the tariffs are now unambiguously a thing of the past, although that’s far from a sure thing.
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