Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last week
#Trump had cited that statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act [#IEEPA], to justify his massive "reciprocal" tariff plan, which set a nearly global 10% baseline duty while slapping higher rates on dozens of individual countries.

Trump rolled out that policy in early April, but after markets convulsed in response he quickly delayed the higher #tariffs from taking effect.

#law#Constitution#SeparationOfPowers#Congress#NealKatyal
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Many of those #tariffs — including revised rates for countries that have struck agreements with the US or have been targeted by one of Trump's recent #trade letters — are set to snap back into place Friday.

#Trump also invoked #IEEPA as his authority to impose tariffs on #Canada, #Mexico & #China over alleged cross-border threats.

#law#Constitution#SeparationOfPowers#Congress#NealKatyal
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last week

"And our #Constitution was very clear in saying…there's one branch that has the #power to tariff & it isn't the president & it isn't the #courts. It's the #Congress of the #UnitedStates," Katyal said.

The case, known as V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, centers on whether #Trump exceeded his #authority by invoking an emergency-powers #law to impose a slew of far-reaching tariff policies.

#law#SeparationOfPowers#NealKatyal #tariffs
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
#Trump had cited that statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act [#IEEPA], to justify his massive "reciprocal" tariff plan, which set a nearly global 10% baseline duty while slapping higher rates on dozens of individual countries.

Trump rolled out that policy in early April, but after markets convulsed in response he quickly delayed the higher #tariffs from taking effect.

#law#Constitution#SeparationOfPowers#Congress#NealKatyal