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A federal appeals court temporarily paused a federal three-judge panel's ruling to block the majority of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Thursday (May 29), NBC News reports.
The "request for an immediate administrative stay is granted to the extent that the judgments and the permanent injunctions entered by the Court of International Trade in these cases are temporarily stayed until further notice while this court considers" whether the federal court's ruling should be paused for an extended period of time, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in a brief ruling. The current pause of the ruling will last until at least June 9, at which point both sides will have submitted legal arguments for the status moving forward.
The U.S. Court of International Trade panel ruled that Trump had exceeded his authority as the tariffs lacked "any identifiable limits" and that the Emergency Economic Powers Act, the federal law the president has cited in many of his executive orders, doesn't “delegate an unbounded tariff authority to the President.”
“We instead read IEEPA’s provisions to impose meaningful limits on any such authority it confers," the panel wrote via NBC News.
The tariffs blocked include the 10% rate applied to most U.S. trading partners and those on China, as well as ones levied on Canada and Mexico that Trump has claimed to be fentanyl-related. The judgment pertained to two lawsuits over the president's tariffs, which includes one by a group of states led by Arizona and Oregon and another led by several small business, both of which sued the administration and claimed Trump exceeded his authority.
"I will continue to fight for affordability for Arizonans and against President Trump’s illegal abuses of power,” said Democrat Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes via NBC News.
The Trump administration had already moved to appeal the panel's decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shortly after it was reported on Wednesday.