In a bylined article published in Salon, David Coale examines the current constitutional challenges to President Trump’s tariff policies.  The administration’s imposition of tariffs is facing legal scrutiny based on perceived limits to presidential authority. But the article outlines three key reasons the tariffs may face even greater vulnerability through the courts’ application of the so-called rational-basis standard, which requires such tariffs to be logically related to a legitimate government interest.

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