President Donald Trump and his administration have been engaged in Democrat-fueled lawfare practically since he was sworn into office, and the ongoing legal battles are continuing to hamper his ability to deliver on the promises a majority of voters supported in the November election. But the president did manage to secure a very important court victory this week that isn’t getting much play in the ‘mainstream media’ because…well, all know why that is.
The U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) has denied a request from a group of small businesses seeking to immediately block President Donald Trump’s broad tariff measures. In its decision, the three-judge panel ruled that the plaintiffs did not demonstrate a likelihood of “immediate and irreparable harm,” the legal threshold required for a temporary restraining order. As a result, Trump’s wide-ranging tariff plan remains in effect while the plaintiffs’ broader request for injunctive relief continues to move through the courts. This is huge because the use of tariffs is the cornerstone of Trump’s quest to level the international trade playing field to the betterment of all Americans, even pesky left-wing Democrats who never really know what’s good for them.
On Tuesday, the judges also ordered both the plaintiffs and government attorneys to submit updated filings by early May, and scheduled a hearing to consider the merits of the case. The lawsuit was filed earlier this month by the Texas-based Liberty Justice Center on behalf of four small businesses located in New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Vermont. The plaintiffs argued that each of the small businesses depends heavily on imported goods for daily operations. They claimed that the uncertainty caused by Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff on imports—and the continued instability in the days and weeks that followed—would be “devastating” to their operations and supply chains.
The plaintiffs requested that the federal trade court issue a temporary restraining order to block the tariffs from taking effect, arguing that President Trump improperly invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) — a law established to give presidents the power to do what Trump is doing — to justify the sweeping new taxes on imported goods.
“The power claimed by the President here is extreme: he claims the power to unilaterally impose infinite tariffs of his choosing on any country he chooses — even countries with which we run a trade surplus,” they argued in their court filing. “Any grant of such authority by Congress to the President should qualify as a major question subject to the strictest judicial scrutiny — which this claim of authority under IEEPA cannot survive,” they added.
It’s not clear how the trade court will ultimately rule, but the fact that the judges didn’t just arbitrarily slap another nationwide injunction on the administration is a win for Trump, certainly, but also for Americans and the U.S. labor market that has been devastated and hollowed out for decades thanks to the bipartisan political “establishment” in its relentless pursuit of “free trade” that has never been ‘free’ — for us.