Published July 24, 2026 at 11:02 AM ET · Updated July 24, 2026 at 6:05 PM ET
Lawsuit filed challenging President Trump's new Section 301 tariffs
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The Liberty Justice Center has filed the first lawsuit challenging President Trump's new Section 301 tariffs. Trump has launched a new tariff regime that is now facing legal challenge.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Learning Resources v. V.O.S. Selections held that IEEPA does not authorize presidential tariffs and that the Constitution vests the duty-laying power in Congress, leaving the Executive no inherent tariff authority. Under Youngstown, presidential tariff power must come from a congressional delegation. This Section 301 suit turns on whether that statute actually delegates such power.
Learning Resources v. V.O.S. Selections 607 U.S. 229 (2026)
Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Roberts (C.J.)
THE ANSWER TO THE LITIGATED QUESTION: the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. The Constitution vests the power to lay taxes and duties in Congress; the Executive has no inherent authority to impose peacetime tariffs (a point the government conceded), so any presidential tariff power must come from a congressional delegation. IEEPA's grant of authority to 'regulate ...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (The Steel Seizure Case) — CROSS-REFERENCE ENTRY 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Black
SHORT FORM (full apparatus lives in the presidential-immunity entry): President Truman's Korean War seizure of the steel mills was unlawful — the President's power 'must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself,' and neither source supplied it, particularly where Congress had considered and withheld seizure authority. Youngstown supplies the Jackson framework through which Dames & Moore, Zivotofsky, and the 2026 IEEPA tariff decision were all argued: emergency does not create power; it marks the occasion for exercising powers that must already exist.
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