Overview

• A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump overstepped his authority by invoking the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose sweeping tariffs.
• Trump unleashed a tirade on Truth Social, blaming Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society for advising him to appoint judges who are now thwarting his agenda.
• An appeals court temporarily allowed the tariffs to remain in effect pending further review, but Trump is pressing the Supreme Court to overturn the trade court’s decision.
• Federal judges, including many appointed during Trump’s first term, have repeatedly intervened to block his policies on tariffs, mass deportations, university funding cuts and federal worker firings.
• The president’s public feud with Leo underscores a widening rift between his administration and the conservative legal network that helped shape his first-term judiciary