THE PRESIDENT ACTED SQUARELY WITHIN HIS LAWFUL AUTHORITY
By Peter Navarro | The Washington Times | August 31, 2025
OPINION:
The Federal Circuit’s majority decision striking down President Trump’s emergency tariffs is a poster child of weaponized partisan injustice. The powerful dissent provides a clear road map for the Supreme Court to follow when it takes up the issue in October. That road map affirms what should be obvious: Mr. Trump acted squarely within his lawful authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
On the politics, six of the seven judges in the majority were appointed by Democratic presidents. Not a single Trump appointee sits on the Federal Circuit.
The states lined up against the tariffs form a solid blue bloc, each led by a Democratic governor and a Democratic-dominated legislature.