First Judicial Victory of Donald Trump in the Battle against the Judgment issued by the United States International Trade Court this Thursday. The Washington Court of Appeals has decided to cautiously suspend the application of the sentence waiting to enter the analysis of the case. To ask for the suspension this Friday, it was not previously suspended.
Wednesday’s judgment declared much of Trump’s tariffs illegal after entering the bottom of the matter. The new resolution is much less draft, because it does not revoke the sentence, but leaves its application in a precautionary way while examining the case. Even so, it is a relief for the president.
“The application for immediate administrative suspension is granted to the extent that the final sentences and the definitive precautionary measures issued by the International Trade Court in these cases are temporarily suspended until new notice, while this Court examines the writings of the motions,” says the resolution of four pages of the Court.
“The parties are ordered to immediately inform this Court of any measure adopted by the International Trade Court on the slope suspension applications of the United States,” he adds.
“The plaintiffs-appointed are ordered to respond to the requests for suspension of the United States no later than June 5, 2025. [El Gobierno de] The United States may present a single consolidated response in support of them no later than June 9, 2025 ″, he concludes.
The judges will analyze those writings and decide whether they maintain the suspension of the application of the sentence while entering the bottom of the matter or if the tariffs are annulled in the meantime. In that last case, the Trump government – which has not yet submitted its resource on the fund, but has anticipated that it plans to do it – could resume the plan to ask the Supreme, conservative majority, the precautionary suspension.
Trump is silent for now, “there is a worrying and dangerous tendency of unleashed judges who interfere in the presidential decision -making process,” the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, who considers that the sentence is an example of “judicial extralimitation” and not of overreach of Trump himself.
“The United States cannot work if President Trump, or any other president, sees how his delicate diplomatic or commercial negotiations are hindered by activist judges. But, ultimately, the Supreme Court must end this for the sake of our Constitution,” Leavitt added. For now, the Trump government does not need to reach the Supreme.
The United States International Trade Court, the specialized court with powers in the field, by virtue of a law of emergency powers, noting that the President had skipped the Constitution and the law.
The sentence whose application is suspended would cancel and would leave the taxes of 25% to the imports of Canada and Mexico and 20% to those of China with the excuse of the fentanyl and immigration, and the false “reciprocal tariffs” to the whole world, announced the badly called day of liberation, which were reduced and granted a partial truce of 90 days before the pressure of the markets.
The Trump government said that if the sentence was applied “the successful agreements that the president has reached with multiple countries could fall apart immediately.” In a letter filed on Thursday, it highlighted the same arguments that the Trump administration has wielded throughout the case, including that the courts are not authorized to question the president’s decision to invoke the emergency law to impose tariffs.
The Government also argued that Trump’s interpretation of the law must be maintained because decades ago the commercial court allowed former president Richard Nixon to impose tariffs with emergency character by virtue of a similar law, although the sentence analyzes in detail that antecedent in the argument and considers that he endorses his ruling.
The letter requested the precautionary suspension of the application of the sentence, claiming that the damages that would cause “are clearly irreparable.” “In the absence of a suspension, even if this Court finally confirms the tariffs, the permanent court order of the International Trade Court could have compromised delicate urgent international negotiations, perhaps irremediably. In addition, in the absence of a suspension, the government will receive less income that it will not be able to recover if the tariffs are finally confirmed, which is another irreparable damage,” he argued.
