Following California, 11 more states in the United States sued the Trump administration for

Source: CCTV News Client

On April 23 local time, a reporter from the Taiwan Taiwan learned that New York, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont filed lawsuits in the U.S. Court of International Trade, trying to prevent the implementation of the Trump administration's tariff policy and seeking the court to declare its new tariff policy illegal.

It is reported that New York Attorney General Liticia James said in a statement on the lawsuit that the president has no power to raise taxes as he pleases, but Trump has done so on the issue of tariff policy. The lawsuit believes that the US president has no right to arbitrarily impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act cited when Trump enforces tariff policies.

Earlier, California Governor Gavin Newsom, announced on the 16th local time that he sued the Trump administration for tariff issues, accusing the latter of abusing tariff policies of "illegal". This is the first state government in the United States to challenge Trump's tariff "big stick". The lawsuit, filed in the federal district court of the Northern District of California, will request the court to declare the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration invalid and prohibit them from being enforced, according to a statement issued by the California governor’s office.

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