On May 8, the US Court of International Trade ruled that Donald Trump's massive new Section 122 tariffs are illegal, in cases brought by the Liberty Justice Center (on behalf of two small businesses) and 24 state governments, led by Oregon. Today, the CIT rejected the Trump Administration's motion to stay the injunction blocking further collection of the tariffs until the litigation over the case is done.
This is a potentially very significant ruling. Last year, in the case challenging Trump's IEEPA tariffs, LJC and I secured an injunction against them from the CIT, but that injunction was then stayed until the Supreme Court finally decided the case, almost a year later. That led to the collection of some $166 billion of illegal tariffs, and caused all sorts of harm that cannot be compensated by refunds (which the Trump administration only recently finally began to pay). As I explained at the time the IEEPA stay motion was being litigated:
