{"id":505852,"date":"2026-03-05T20:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/505852\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:29:11","slug":"24-us-states-sue-to-stop-trumps-latest-global-tariffs-including-new-york-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/505852\/","title":{"rendered":"24 US states sue to stop Trump\u2019s latest global tariffs, including New York, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A group of 24 US states sued President Donald Trump\u2019s administration on Thursday in the first legal challenge to his newly imposed 10 per cent global tariffs, alleging that the president cannot sidestep a recent US Supreme Court ruling that invalidated most of his previous tariffs on imported goods by citing new legal authority, according to \u200cthe states.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Democratic-led states, including New York, California and Oregon, argued that the new tariffs, which Trump announced immediately after the high court ruling on February 20, are also illegal.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tariffs were imposed for 150 days under the Trade Act of 1974, which is meant to address short-term monetary emergencies, not routine trade deficits that arise when a wealthy nation like the United States imports more than it exports, according to the lawsuit filed in the New York-based US Court of International Trade<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said during a press conference that Trump\u2019s latest tariffs are an attempted \u201cend run\u201d around working with Congress, as the US Constitution requires.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMake no mistake about it, President Trump\u2019s signature economic policy is historically unpopular and is costing Americans, our business, and \u2060us as states hundreds of billions of dollars,\u201d Rayfield said. \u201cIt cannot continue just because a few of Trump\u2019s lawyers have found a way to twist words and craft a legal argument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shipping containers are stacked at the Port of Los Angeles in California on Wednesday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/343e202c-264b-4b03-9d3c-15745a0c0c7d_595de0ff.jpg\" title=\"Shipping containers are stacked at the Port of Los Angeles in California on Wednesday. Photo: EPA\"\/>Shipping containers are stacked at the Port of Los Angeles in California on Wednesday. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">White House \u200cspokesman Kush Desai said in a statement that the administration would vigorously defend the president\u2019s action in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of 24 US states sued President Donald Trump\u2019s administration on Thursday in the first legal challenge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2356,1340,12,133927,230123,2005,3,2232,3504,4666,15304,230120,21,19,22,20,25,230124,230121,230122,24,6601],"class_list":{"0":"post-505852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-congress","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-february","13":"tag-international-emergency-economic-powers-act","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-oregon","17":"tag-richard-nixon","18":"tag-scott-bessent","19":"tag-supreme-court","20":"tag-trade-act-of","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-court-of-international-trade","27":"tag-us-customs","28":"tag-us-states","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}