Just as federal courts blocked former President Joe Biden’s abuse of the Clean Air Act to shut down coal power plants, and just as they blocked Biden’s attempt to erase hundreds of billions of dollars in college debt using the 2003 Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, so now the Court of International Trade has rightly thwarted overreach by President Donald Trump. It ruled on May 28 that Trump abused his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act when he issued broad tariffs that he admitted were designed to be the “biggest reorganization of the global economy since World War II.”

Trump will fight this ruling up to the Supreme Court, but he will lose, and it will be a victory for the Constitution, the public, and the separation of powers.