End Trump’s illegal tariffs: States suing should knock down the trade barriers

End Trump’s illegal tariffs: States suing should knock down the trade barriers

A dozen states, including New York, are rightly taking the Trump administration to court, specifically the U.S. Court of International Trade, over what they claim is its abuse of the power to levy tariffs. We’re not administrative law professors, but it more than seems like the complainants have a solid case — because, like them or hate them (and everyone should hate them), it’s impossible to dispute that the president has slapped levies on coun…

Twelve states sue Trump over tariff policy

Twelve states have initiated legal proceedings against the administration of US President Donald Trump at the US Court of International Trade in New York. The states aim to halt the federal tariff policy, contending it is unlawful and has disrupted the US economy. The lawsuit argues that the policy…

The Problems of not Killing Penn Expansion and of Tariffs

Penn Station Expansion is a useless project. This is not news; the idea was suspicious from the start, and since then we’ve done layers of simulation, most recently of train-platform-mezzanine passenger flow. However, what is news is that the Trump administration is aiming to take over Penn Reconstruction (a separate, also bad project) from the MTA, in what looks like the usual agency turf battles, except now given a partisan spin. I doubt there…