CIT judges grapple with Nixon-era precedent in IEEPA tariff challenge

Judges on the Court of International Trade spent much of a Tuesday hearing on President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs wrestling with a Nixon-era precedent that the Justice Department says requires CIT to uphold the duties, questioning how closely the current program -- and IEEPA itself -- match the policy in the earlier case. A three-judge CIT panel spent more than two hours on May 13 pressing attorneys from both sides of the IEEPA litigation on many aspects...