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But an attorney for the plaintiffs, #NealKatyal, characterized #Trump’s maneuver as a “breathtaking” #power grab that amounted to saying “the president can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, for as long as he wants so long as he declares an #emergency.”

No ruling was issued from the bench. Regardless of what decision the #judges’ deliberations bring, the case is widely expected to reach #SCOTUS.

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“If the president says there’s a problem with our military readiness,” Chief Circuit Judge Kimberly Moore posited, “& he puts a 20% tax on coffee, that doesn’t seem to necessarily deal with (it).”

Schumate said #Congress’ passage of #IEEPA gave the president “broad & flexible” #power to respond to an #emergency, but that “the president is not asking for unbounded authority.”

#Trump#tariffs#law
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#IEEPA doesn’t even mention the word ‘#tariffs’ anywhere,” Circuit Judge Jimmie Reyna said, in a sign of the panel’s incredulity to a government attorney’s arguments.

Brett Schumate, the attorney representing the #Trump admin, acknowledged in the 99-min hearing “no president has ever read IEEPA this way” but contended it was nonetheless lawful.

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#Trump had cited that statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act [#IEEPA], to justify his massive "reciprocal" tariff plan, which set a nearly global 10% baseline duty while slapping higher rates on dozens of individual countries.

Trump rolled out that policy in early April, but after markets convulsed in response he quickly delayed the higher #tariffs from taking effect.

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#NealKatyal, the lawyer who is arguing against the #Trump admin, said earlier Thursday, "The president is saying he on his own with his say so can impose these tariffs."

"And that is something no president in 200 years has ever thought. The tariff power goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War &… the protests in the Boston Tea Party & the like," #Katyal said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

Hell yeah

#LawFirm #Milbank cuts Katyal’s $3,250 rate in defending #NJ cities against #Trump

Prominent lawyer #NealKatyal of law firm Milbank will charge a sharply REDUCED hourly rate & not his standard $3,250 as he helps to defend 2 #NewJersey cities sued by Trump’s admin over their #immigration policies, acc/to a contract obtained by Reuters.

Milbank's lawyers, including #Katyal, will each charge $300/hour—to be split evenly by #Newark & #Hoboken….

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Via #RawStory

«The #SupremeCourt is weighing whether to review the D.C. #CourtOfAppeals' wholesale rejection of former President #DonaldTrump's claim to #immunity from prosecution in #JackSmith's federal #ElectionConspiracy case — but the pressure mounting against them not to do so is hardly partisan, former acting #SolicitorGeneral #NealKatyal told #MSNBC's #AriMelber on Wednesday. A number of prominent #Republican #legal experts are urging them to stay out of it too»

rawstory.com/gop-scholars-trum

Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism · GOP scholars put Supreme Court on notice not to 'waste its time' on Trump immunity: expertBy Matthew Chapman