Yesterday, the Trump Administration suffered its second loss in court in its legal battle to impose ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs as it sees fit.
Yesterday, the Trump Administration suffered its second loss in court in its legal battle to impose Liberation Day tariffs as it sees fit. In a 7-4 ruling issued moments ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the U.S. Court of International Trade’s unanimous May 28 decision in favor of the Liberty Justice Center’s clients—a decision which held that the Trump Administration’s tariffs are unconstitutional and enjoined them from continuing.
The Liberty Justice Center, along with constitutional scholar Ilya Somin, filed a lawsuit to challenge the “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 14, representing five small businesses whose operations would be decimated by the tariffs. The lawsuit was joined by leading appellate lawyers and constitutional scholars Judge Michael W. McConnell and Neal Katyal after the Trump Administration appealed to the Federal Circuit.
One of those small businesses was owned by David Levi. Mr. Levi began designing an educational electronic musical toy kit in 2020. Initially, he made batches of a few hundred at a time and sold them on Amazon. As sales grew, he rented a workshop and a small warehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, purchased some light production machines, and hired his first employee. Due to the lag between purchasing components and selling his products, his family agreed to lend him money to help with cash flow.
