A conservative legal group has filed the first federal lawsuit challenging an emergency power President Donald Trump used to impose tariffs on China.
On Thursday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Trump’s tariffs on China. The president used authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to place a 10% tariff on imports from China on Feb. 1 and later doubled the number to 20% on March 3.
The NLCA’s lawsuit argued Trump unlawfully invoked IEEPA powers in an unprecedented manner that interpreted the law far too broadly.
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“No prior president ever thought the IEEPA allowed him to set tariffs,” NLCA President Mark Chenoweth said. “Reading this law broadly enough to uphold
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