{"id":12610,"date":"2025-09-03T08:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12610"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:46:29","slug":"trump-takes-a-huge-loss-on-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12610","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes a huge loss on tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/25.png 636w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/25-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 Friday that the president\u2019s aggressive imposition of unilateral taxes on imports is \u201cinvalid as contrary to law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has claimed sweeping authority to impose, remove, and modify at will tariffs on any country in the world all under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act which, as the court notes, has never been used by any president to impose tariffs in its 50-year history. The Trump administration also argued that, because tariffs relate to foreign affairs and national security, the president should be given special leeway to impose them. The court was rightly \u201cunpersuaded\u201d by that argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Constitution was designed by the Framers to protect from government overreach the liberties Americans hold dear. To fulfill that purpose, it must not be subject to change by any government official apart from the amendment process. That is why conservatives \u2014 most prominently the late Justice Antonin Scalia \u2014 have argued that originalism, the view that legal texts must be interpreted as they were understood when adopted, is the only legitimate form of constitutional interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Constitution\u2019s meaning can be twisted and its powers distorted by a majority of the Supreme Court, or Congress, or by the president, the Constitution will not keep us free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution vests the power to tax, including the power to impose tariffs, in Congress alone. Congress has no constitutional authority to divest that power to the president. The government\u2019s argument \u2014 that presidents deserve special judicial deference \u2014 was an attempt to circumvent the constitutional limitations on both the president\u2019s and Congress\u2019s power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As argued by Advancing American Freedom and quoted by four of the seven-member majority in their \u201cadditional views\u201d opinion, \u201cat the founding, \u2018taxations levied on imports were not a special category of power that Congress shared with, or could share with, the president.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Constitution was being drafted and later considered by the states for ratification, one question debated was whether the new national government should have the power of \u201cinternal\u201d taxation or whether its authority should be limited to \u201cexternal\u201d taxation \u2014 taxes on imports and the like. What was not debated was which of the government\u2019s three branches would exercise that power. Everyone understood that Congress, as the representative branch closest to the people, alone held the power to tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Founders understood, as Alexander Hamilton noted in The Federalist 35, that when it comes to taxes on imports, \u201cthe consumer is the payer \u2026 much oftener \u2026 than the reverse.\u201d The Founders would have certainly objected to granting the power to separate the people from their property to a single man. After all, they had recently finished fighting a war against \u201ctaxation without representation,\u201d after declared independence from Great Britain in part because the king had \u201cimpos[ed] taxes on us without our consent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Constitution contains no \u201cforeign affairs\u201d or \u201cnational security\u201d exemption to the limitations it imposes on government power. Neither the president nor Congress may rewrite the Constitution, apart from the amendment process, even if doing so seems worthwhile to them. Those limitations on government power are what keep us free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Circuit\u2019s ruling leaves the tariffs in place for now, and either the Court of International Trade or the Supreme Court will have the opportunity to grant the challenging parties, and Americans generally, relief from Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, the court\u2019s ruling is clear and unequivocal on the core legal issues at stake in the case. The law that Trump has invoked does not grant the president the power to impose taxes on imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marc Wheat and Timothy Harper are general counsel and counsel, respectively, to Advancing American Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 Friday that the president\u2019s aggressive imposition of unilateral taxes on imports is \u201cinvalid as contrary to law.\u201d Trump has claimed sweeping authority to impose, remove, and modify at will tariffs on any country in the world all under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act which, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1724,61],"class_list":["post-12610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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