Our legal system, dedicated to the rule of law, is not intended to allow for the broad assertions of almost unlimited Presidential power that the current Administration has claimed. Authority is divided between our three coequal branches and between the federal government and the states.

We were therefore pleased to see, right before the start of the Labor Day weekend, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down the main portion of the Administration’s tariff program, as beyond the authority granted by the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

The Administration’s tariffs have been primarily justified by IEEPA on the basis of their being an international economic emergency brought about by trade deficits and the steady decline of American

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