Trump Confesses Illegal Motive, Blows Up Legal Basis for His Trade War

President Trump has been waging a trade war on a variety of American allies. His tool, ironically enough, is a 1962 law giving the president unilateral authority to raise tariffs for national security reasons. Trump has extremely wide latitude to define “national security” as he sees fit, even for policy goals that are not only unrelated to but obviously contrary to national security. But he might have undermined his own ploy.
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