A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs on almost every country on Earth but left in place for now his effort to.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs on almost every country on Earth but left in place for now his effort to build a protectionist wall around the American economy. The ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found Trump overstepped his authority under an emergency powers law, a major legal blow that largely upheld a May decision by a specialized New York federal trade court, per the AP. « It seems unlikely that Congress intended to . grant the president unlimited authority to impose tariffs », the judges wrote in a 7-4 ruling. But they didn’t strike down the tariffs immediately, allowing his administration until mid-October to appeal to the Supreme Court.
