Federal Court Blocks Trump's Tariffs, Finding the President Overstepped His Authority

President Donald Trump holds a reciprocal tariffs poster during a tariff announcement at the White House in April. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images A federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs from going into effect, ruling that the emergency-powers law invoked by the administration doesn't give the president authority to impose duties on goods from nearly every US trading partner. The three-judge panel at the New York-based US Court of International Trade concluded that Congress has exclusive authority to regulate commerce with other countries and that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 -- the crux of Trump's argument to impose the tariffs -- doesn't give the president "unbounded" authority to impose the duties. "An unlimited delegation of tariff authority would constitute an improper abdication of legislative power to another branch of government," the court wrote in its opinion. "Regardless of whether the court views ... Read full article.