A coalition of public leaders—including former U.S. Senators, retired federal judges, a retired U.S. Attorney General, and preeminent constitutional scholars—filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the U.S. Court of International Trade to strike down President Trump’s 2025 tariff and import tax program as an unlawful and unprecedented seizure of legislative power.
Filed in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump, the brief challenges the President’s sweeping use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose a 10% baseline tariff on nearly all imports, alongside sharply higher duties targeting Chinese goods and foreign automobiles. The brief condemns the tariffs as “arbitrary taxation untethered from the constitutional processes designed to safeguard liberty.”
Indy Politics spoke with Joshua Claybourn, an attorney from Evansville, who is one of the plaintiffs in the amicus brief.
You can hear the interview above. It runs for about 18 minutes.
