Well, howdy there, Internet people. It's Bell again. So today, we're going to talk about Trump's

tariffs being invalidated. About two weeks ago, we talked about a case against Trump's tariffs

in the U.S. Court of International Trade. This was the one where the judge asked about Trump declaring a peanut

butter emergency to justify his tariffs. The court was facing what was likely to be the most

consequential decision it would ever face because trillions in international trade were on the line

and would be directly affected by the decision.

They came to their decision and invalidated Trump's Liberation Day tariffs.

Trump justified those tariffs by citing the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act,

known as the IEEPA. The court wrote plainly,

quote, the worldwide and retaliatory tariff orders exceed any authority granted to the president

by IEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs.

When we talked about it before, we noted how the case really hinges on congressional

intent and whether Congress actually meant to or even could give the President basically

unchecked power over tariffs, when the Constitution explicitly

gives the power over tariffs to Congress. The court definitely didn't take the position

Trump wanted, writing, quote, because of the Constitution's express allocation of the tariff

power to Congress, we do not read IEEPA to delegate an

unbound tariff authority to the president. We instead read IEEPA's provisions to impose meaningful

limits on any such authority it confers. The White House responded to the decision by promising to appeal and saying, quote,

it is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency.

It's worth noting that all federal judges are appointed, not elected.

The three judges on the panel in question were appointed by Reagan, Obama, and, well, Trump in his first term.

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