Originally published at: 5 Points on the Effort to Block Trump’s Latest Tariffs - TPM – Talking Points Memo
As soon as the Supreme Court struck down many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs in February, his administration imposed a new, sweeping 10% tariff on a broad swath of products and countries under a different law, called Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. Now, a group of 24 states and some small businesses…
As a lawyer, I’m most confused about the inability of the plaintiffs to seek a stay of these new import taxes/tariffs. Unless I don’t understand what they are doing, I would have filed to seek a stay of the tariffs on day one. Why let them ever be collected when the Trump regime seems unwilling or unable to refund stolen tariff money from their first bunch of illegal tariffs?
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