WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s global tariffs can remain in place while the courts examine whether the sweeping import taxes that have roiled worldwide trade reach beyond his presidential authority.
The U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit delivered the order swiftly Thursday, handing Trump a win after a lower trade court blocked nearly all of the president’s unprecedented emergency tariffs that affect U.S. trade with nearly every other nation.
The administration had immediately appealed the ruling and threatened to take the case to the Supreme Court as early as Friday if a stay was not granted.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the earlier decision Thursday, saying the three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of International Trade “brazenly abused their jud