Federalist Society bigwigs and scholars who came to President Donald Trump’s defense in his various personal criminal cases last year have now thrown their weight behind legal challenges to his ability to impose heavy tariffs.
This week, Federalist Society co-chair Steven Calabresi and former Attorney General Edwin Meese III joined a dozen other college professors and ex-officials asking that a federal judge immediately derail Trump’s “sweeping tariff regime that touches nearly every imported good sold in the United States.”
“Congress, not the president, has the power to impose tariffs,” they wrote. “This dispute is not about the wisdom of tariffs or the politics of trade. It is about who holds the power to tax the American people.”