'Not for unelected judges to decide': Trump admin says tariffs are 'immune from judicial scrutiny' as it appeals order [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
May 29th, 2025, 11:36 am
The Trump administration wasted no time notifying a federal court in Manhattan that the government would be appealing a blockbuster ruling blocking many of the president’s international tariffs. Just hours after a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade issued its unanimous order, attorneys with the Department of Justice requested that enforcement of the judgment be stayed until the case is heard by an appellate court.
The president’s unilaterally imposed tariffs, which went into effect on April 2, had been the centerpiece of the administration’s plan to pressure foreign nations into striking trade deals more beneficial to the United States. That strategy has now suffered a significant, albeit early, setback.
The administration asserted that “the Court erred” by interfering with Trump’s ability to conduct foreign affairs, arguing that halting the tariffs, even temporarily, could pose a grave risk to the state of international relations and U.S. national security.
“It is critical, for the country’s national security and the President’s conduct of ongoing, delicate diplomatic efforts, that the Court stay its judgment,” attorneys with the DOJ’s Civil Division wrote in the 17-page motion for a stay. “The harm to the conduct of foreign affairs from the relief ordered by the Court could not be greater.”
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Full headline: ‘Not for unelected judges to decide’: Trump admin says tariffs are ‘immune from judicial scrutiny’ as it appeals order blocking levies
Link to MOTION (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25956369-govuscourtscit17080590/
Link to MOTION (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25956369/govuscourtscit17080590.pdf
This is to the appeals court but reports are out now to take it to the SCOTUS.
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