The White House is forcefully pushing back at a federal court which on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sharply criticized the judges on the federal trade court and she defended the president’s tariff policies as “legally sound and grounded in common sense.”

Leavitt said at a press briefing that the judges “brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump” and said the courts “should have no role here.”

Later Thursday, a federal appeals court granted an emergency motion from the Trump administration arguing that a halt is “critical for the country’s national security.”

The appeals court temporarily halted the order from a federal trade court issued a day before.

Trump is facing several lawsuits arguing Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs exceeded his authority and left the country’s trade policy dependent on his whims.