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3 weeks ago | 
ttnews.com | Erik Larson
Government Business June 2, 2025 3:28 PM, EDT Federal Appeals Court Said Tariffs Could Continue While Appeal Process Plays Out — Which Could Take a While A containership departs the Port of Long Beach.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Erik Larson
After a day of legal wrangling over his tariffs, President Donald Trump took to social media to attack the judges who ruled against him as well as a more surprising target: a powerful conservative legal group that helped shape his first-term judicial picks. Timothy Reif, one of three judges of the US Court of International Trade who found on Wednesday that most of the tariffs were illegal, was appointed by Trump himself.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Erik Larson |Josh Wingrove |Shawn Donnan |Laura Curtis
The US Court of International Trade ruled May 28 thatthe vast majority of President Donald Trump’s tariffs were issued illegally and ordered them blocked, which would delivera blow to a key pillar of his economic agenda. A day later, an appeals court gave Trump’s administration atemporarily reprievefrom the ruling while weighing a longer-lasting hold.
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4 weeks ago | 
theolympian.com | Shawn Donnan |Erik Larson |Laura Curtis
President Donald Trump's tariff strategy has been thrown into turmoil after a U.S. court issued a rare rebuke blocking many of the import taxes he has threatened and imposed on other countries. In a ruling issued late Wednesday, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of International Trade declared that the Trump administration had wrongly invoked a 1977 law in imposing his "Liberation Day" tariffs on dozens of countries and they were therefore illegal.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Shawn Donnan |Erik Larson |Laura Curtis
La estrategia arancelaria del presidente Donald Trump quedó sumida en el caos luego de que un tribunal de EE.UU. bloqueara muchos de los gravámenes a la importación que había amenazado e impuesto a otros países. En un fallo emitido el miércoles, un panel de tres jueces del Tribunal de Comercio Internacional de EE.UU.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Shawn Donnan |Erik Larson |Laura Curtis
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy has been thrown into turmoil after a US court issued a rare rebuke blocking many of the import taxes he has threatened and imposed on other countries. In a ruling issued late Wednesday, a three-judge panel for the US Court of International Trade declared that the Trump administration had wrongly invoked a 1977 law in imposing his “Liberation Day” tariffs on dozens of countries and they were therefore illegal.
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1 month ago | 
ca.finance.yahoo.com | Erik Larson |Josh Wingrove
Trump’s executive orders invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to justify the sweeping global tariffs. The law grants the president authority over a variety of financial transactions during certain emergencies, typically with sanctions. The judges rejected the government’s argument that Trump had authority to unilaterally issue tariffs under a law intended to address financial transactions during national emergencies.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Erik Larson |Josh Wingrove
(Bloomberg) -- The vast majority of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of his economic agenda. A panel of three judges at the US Court of International Trade in Manhattan issued a unanimous ruling Wednesday which sided with Democratic-led states and small businesses that accused Trump of wrongfully invoking an emergency law to justify the bulk of his levies.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Erik Larson
Andrew Left(Bloomberg) -- Short seller Andrew Left is making a new push to sway the US Justice Department to drop fraud charges filed against him last year, hiring a former federal prosecutor to make fresh arguments directly to the Trump administration. The strategy hinges on convincing the Justice Department that the case against Left isn’t in line with President Donald Trump’s enforcement priorities.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Erik Larson
President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting the longstanding concept of birthright citizenship is probably illegal, the US Supreme Court’s liberal justices indicated during the first oral arguments in any of the numerous lawsuits challenging the Republican’s agenda. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday peppered a government lawyer with questions about the constitutionality of Trump’s order.
