Dozen states sue Trump in bid to block new tariffs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Since taking office, Trump has issued a series of executive orders imposing a range of tariffs on foreign imports, including a 145% tariff on products made in China, and tariffs of 25% on products from Canada and Mexico.
45% : Trump imposed a 10% tariff on imports from most of the other countries in the world."The
44% : Constitution assigns to Congress, not the President, the 'Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,'" the suit says.
43% : In the nearly five decades since IEEPA was enacted, no other President has imposed tariffs based on the existence of any national emergency, despite global anti-narcotics campaigns spearheaded by the United States and longstanding trade deficits," the states' suit says.
32% : It argues that a president has no authority to arbitrarily impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the U.S. law that Trump has cited in executing his tariff policy.
28% : president does not have the power to raise taxes on a whim, but that's exactly what President Trump has been doing with these tariffs," New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement on the lawsuit.
23% : The civil complaint comes more than a week after a group of five small businesses filed a similar lawsuit against Trump in the same court, challenging the legality of the new tariffs on the same grounds.

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