Twelve States on Wednesday Brought Legal Action Against The Us President Donald Trump’s Administration in The Us Court of International Trade in New York.
The States Want to Halt the Federal Government’s Tariff Policy, Arguing It is Unlawful and Has Brought Chaos to the Us Economy.
What does the Lawsuit Ask for?
The Lawsuit Said the Policy Put in Place By President Donald Trump Has Left The National Trade Policy Subject to Trump’s “Whims Rather Than The Sound Exercise of Lawful Authority.”
The States Listed as Plainting in the Lawsuit Were Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Vermont.
The Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Association that He Can Arbitrarily Impose Taiffs Based on theInternational Emergency Economic Powers Act IT asks the court to state the Tariffs as prohibited and to obstruct federal government firms and policemans from imposing subject.
The lawsuits Maintains that ONLY Congress has the power to enforceTariffs It Says the President Can Only Invoke the Emergency Act When there is an “Unusual and Extraordinary Threat” from abroad.
“By Claiming the Authority to Impose Immense and Ever-Changing Tatiffs on Whatever Goods Entering The United States He Chooses, For whatever Reason He Finds Convenient to Declare an Emergency, The Presited Has Upended The Constitutional Order and Brought Chaos to the American Economy,” The Legal Action Said
In A Statement, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes Said Trump’s Tariff Scheme Was “Insane.” She included that it was “not only open iconomically Reckless – it is illegal.”
California Blazes Legal Trail
California Governor Gavin Newsom, A Democrat, Last Sued the Trump Administration in Us District Court In The Northern District ofCalifornia Over The Tariff Policy Hey Said his state, as the Largest importer in the nation, Could Lose Billions of Dollars in Revenue.
White home spokes individual Kush Desai Responded to That Lawsuit, Saying the Administration “Remains Committed to Addressing This National Emergency That’s Decimating America’s Industries and Leaving our Workers Behind with Every Tool at Our Disposal, From Tamuria to Negotiations.”
Edited by: John Silk