They claimed that Trump’s tariffs were unlawful and created chaos within the nation’s economic system, the Associated Press reported. The lawsuit was filed in New York City, New York, on Wednesday at the U.S. Court of International Trade. There were 12 states listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont.
The lawsuit argues that Trump overstepped his “lawful authority” in imposing the tariffs.
“The Constitution assigns to Congress, not the President, the ‘Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,’” reads the lawsuit. “Yet over the last three months, the President has imposed, modified, escalated, and suspended tariffs by executive order, memoranda, social media post, and agency decree. These edicts
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