Posted on 04/16/2025 5:50:27 AM PDT by Drago
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that his state will file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have set off a global trade war.
The suit will argue that Trump's use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China or a 10% tariff on all imports is unlawful. The act enables a president to freeze and block transactions in response to foreign threats.
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Gavin Nobrain has done such a wonderful job of running CaliFUBAR we should make him our next President ... no election needed.
Gruesome Newsom might want to talk to the moronic governor of Maine before they start their lawsuit. I don’t think that jughead Newsom really wants to lose any funding right now just to be a fascist piggy. Trump will see them in court. Bring you checkbook Gruesome.
This is what CA is spending its Trump opposition fund on instead of rebuilding areas destroyed by the wildfires.
California is nothing but a dead state that’s a dumping ground for illegals.
The Law fare campaign against Trump continues.
The United States must end and no effort will be spared.
LOL! Good luck with that. It really doesn’t matter if they get some Obama district court judge who agrees with them. SCOTUS will have no choice but to slap it down.
Oops, the Breitbart version a few minutes before my post:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4311324/posts
I wouldn’t be surprised if Clarence Thomas himself writes the majority opinion in a Supreme Court ruling that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act is unconstitutional from top to bottom.
This would be like suing congress for using their constitutional powers to make law. Totally pointless and honestly should be slapped down literally via SLAPP.
Explain how it is unlawful? The crux of the act is it gave the president the power Congress was supposed to have. Not unlawful, the question is can a branch delegate their own authority.
The answer is yes as this is the case for nearly every regulatory body we have, they all derive their power from Congress. Claiming Congress cannot due that will then establish the precedent that ALL of our regulatory bodies are unconstitutional in the enacting of their rules.
So no not likely to win in SCOTUS.
If I were President Trump, I’d tell them to start a GoFundMe page and have a few car washes and bake sales. The health of illegal alien foreigners is not the problem of American taxpayers.
Seems like there is no ambiguity here.
A PR statement is not a lawsuit. If one is ever filed, it will be interesting to see how a state has standing to sue.
You are making my point, Congress delegated that power, exactly like how they delegated their power to make rules and law via all the federal agencies.
If one delegation of constitutional authority is deemed unconstitutional all the rest can be as well.
How does California have any standing.
California has voice in this, and that is within Congress, not the courts.
Has Congress ever delegated taxation power in any other area?
Trump should have JD Vance handle all things CA. Let JD engage Newsince.
There is ample case law where numerous delegations of Congressional authority has been upheld, this one I am listing is specific to tariffs even. So to your point, Yes regarding tariffs.
Yes the liberals on the court feel otherwise. Note only when it has been in support of their ideology, they have been fine when it supports their politics, but that is how the activist judges on the left have always been.
J. W. HAMPTON, JR., & CO. v. U. S. , 276 U.S. 394 (1928)
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