(Source: CCTV-13 2025-05-15)
On April 16, local time, California Governor Gavin Newsom formally filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Federal Court, accusing the Trump administration of abusing emergency powers to impose tariffs around the world. The lawsuit claims that the Trump administration's imposition of tariffs on many countries is illegal and the implementation of such tariff policies requires congressional approval. California asks the court to immediately halt these tariffs. California is the first state in the nation to sue the Trump administration over tariffs.对外经济贸易大学法学院副教授卢杰锋Be interviewed by CCTV-13 and express expert opinions on this issue.
Lu Jiefeng believes that the relationship between the federal government and state governments in the United States is actually a federal political structure based on the U.S. Constitution. This system design allows the federal government and state governments to have both decentralization and cooperation. While each independently enjoys specific powers, they can also check and balance each other's power to a certain extent.
This time the California government sued the federal government mainly because the tariff policy implemented by the Trump administration in the United States has greatly negatively affected California’s economic interests.加州是美国最大、最全球化、对外贸易依赖性最强的州之一。 Relevant tariff policies, on the one hand, have greatly increased the prices of imported goods in California, harming the interests of consumers in the state. At the same time, foreign retaliatory tariffs will hit California's export industry, especially agricultural products and technological products, affecting California's employment and economic growth.
So from a legal perspective, the legal basis for prosecution in California mainly lies in two aspects. First, when the federal government introduced tariff policies, it was arbitrary and arbitrary, without following proper procedures, and was suspected of violating the U.S. Administrative Procedure Act. Second, although the U.S. Congress has passed federal laws such as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to authorize the U.S. President to have certain powers, the California government can claim that the President is suspected of exceeding his authority when issuing relevant tariff policies. In addition, the California government's request this time is to ask the court to issue a preliminary injunction, which is a temporary order issued by the court during the litigation process. It is mainly used to temporarily prevent a party from taking specific actions before the case is officially decided to prevent irreparable damage.
In general, the California government’s lawsuit against the U.S. federal government’s tariff policy is both a legal action and a political expression. Legally, it challenges the federal government's procedural legitimacy and power boundaries in w88 policy; politically, it reflects California's stance against w88 protectionism and safeguarding the state's global economic interests. Of course, this also fully demonstrates that Trump’s tariff policy is also unpopular in the United States.
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