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J.D. Tuccille: Trump’s desire to cut trade deals doesn’t justify emergency powers

It’s difficult to take President Donald Trump seriously when he claims a “national emergency” justifies invoking extraordinary powers but then keeps kicking the can down the road on addressing the alleged emergency. That’s what he did when he unilaterally imposed tariffs on the whole world based on a wildly broad reading of the International Emergency […]

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