White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the multifaceted judicial coup during a White House press briefing on Thursday, following a Court of International Trade ruling that the President did not have the authority to enact his Liberation Day tariffs.
“The Supreme Court must put an end to this for the sake of our Constitution and our country,” she said after outlining the court’s overreach in stopping a lawful order to “address the extraordinary threats to our national security and economy” from the President of the United States.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Court of International Trade in New York ruled on Wednesday that President Trump exceeded his authority in imposing tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA).
A three-judge panel ruled that President Trump exceeded his authority to unilaterally impose tariffs under IEEPA.
This is despite US District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell suggesting last week that President Trump has the authority to impose tariffs under IEEPA.
The Trump administration immediately appealed the ruling on Wednesday.
This comes as the Trump administration is repeatedly stonewalled by the courts on multiple fronts, trying to limit the President’s executive authority.
Karoline Leavitt decimated the rogue judges, who “brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump to stop him from carrying out the mandate that the American people gave him.”
“Congress had created the National Emergency Act To Provide the congressional framework to strike down improper IEEPA use, and any questions over whether President Trump improperly opposed these IEEPA tariffs were already adjudicated in Congress,” she noted. “Following Liberation Day, Congress firmly rejected an effort led by Senator Rand Paul and Democrats to terminate the President’s reciprocal tariffs.”
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Leavitt: Last night, the Trump administration faced another example of judicial overreach. Using his full and proper legal authority, President Trump imposed universal tariffs and reciprocal tariffs on Liberation Day to address the extraordinary threats to our national security and economy posed by large and persistent annual US goods trade deficits. The United States has run a trade deficit of goods every year since 1975.
In 2024, our trade deficit in goods exceeded $1 trillion. Everybody agrees, this is unacceptable. President Trump is delivering on his promise to fix this problem, and he has taken a long overdue and much-needed, bold stance for American workers after decades of our manufacturing base being hollowed out. The President’s rationale for imposing these powerful tariffs was legally sound and grounded in common sense. President Trump correctly believes that America cannot function safely long-term if we are unable to scale advanced domestic manufacturing capacity, have our own secure critical supply chain, and our defense industrial base is dependent on foreign adversaries.
Three judges of the US Court of International Trade disagreed and brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump to stop him from carrying out the mandate that the American people gave him. These judges failed to acknowledge that the President of the United States has core Foreign Affairs powers and authority given to him by Congress to protect the United States economy and national security. Congress had created the National Emergency Act To Provide the congressional framework to strike down improper IEEPA use, and any questions over whether President Trump improperly opposed these IEEPA tariffs were already adjudicated in Congress. Following Liberation Day, Congress firmly rejected an effort led by Senator Rand Paul and Democrats to terminate the President’s reciprocal tariffs.
The courts should have no roles here. There is a troubling and dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into the presidential decision-making process. America cannot function if President Trump or any other president, for that matter, has their sensitive, diplomatic, or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges. President Trump is in the process of rebalancing America’s trading agreements with the entire world, bringing tens of billions of dollars in tariff revenues to our country, and finally ending the United States of America from being ripped off.
These judges are threatening to undermine the credibility of the United States on the world stage. The administration has already filed an emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and an immediate administrative stay to strike down this egregious decision. But ultimately, the Supreme Court must put an end to this for the sake of our Constitution and our country.
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