Court tariffs bombshell should inspire trading partners to defy Trump

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Wednesday’s ruling from the Court of International Trade saying Donald Trump had wrongly used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to slap tariffs at will on trading partners seems to the layperson no more than common sense. Photograph: Kenny Holston/The New York Times That was quite the shock. Wednesday’s ruling from the Court of International Trade saying Donald Trump had wrongly used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to slap tariffs at will on trading partners seems to the layperson no more than common sense. But given the extent to which courts generally defer to the executive on national security...