Justice backs broad view of CIT’s jurisdiction in IEEPA tariff appeal

The Justice Department is embracing the position that all suits over President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act belong at the Court of International Trade because that court has exclusive jurisdiction over tariff changes, attacking a framework that focuses on whether a particular duty is authorized by law -- which dominated prior phases of the litigation -- as “nonsensical.” DOJ laid out its new position in a June 27 brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit,...