Gary Bauer's End of Day Report

05-29-2025
The U.S. Court of International Trade, an obscure court 99.99% of Americans have never heard of, just joined the judicial jihad against President Trump and his MAGA agenda. Yesterday evening, the trade court struck down the president’s broad tariff policy as an overreach of executive authority. The court did not say that the president has no authority to impose tariffs. Specific tariffs on steel, aluminum, lumber, and semiconductors are not impacted by this decision. But the court ruled that the president cannot use emergency powers to enact a broad tariff policy, such as the president’s 10% baseline global tariffs. This ruling severely limits the president’s ability to use tariffs as a tool of economic policy, foreign policy, and national security policy. It definitely complicates his ability to renegotiate bad trade deals and force other nations to abandon their unfair trade practices.