California Governor Gavin Newsom has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over sweeping new tariffs, calling them unconstitutional and damaging to both the state and the country. Standing alongside Attorney General Rob Bonta at an almond farm in the Central Valley, Newsom said, “No state is poised to lose more than the state of California. That’s why we’re asserting ourselves on behalf of 40 million Americans.”
The lawsuit argues that President Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports—and even higher rates for countries like China—is illegal because the law doesn’t give the president the power to enact tariffs without Congress. “Trump claims this law is the reason he can impose these tariffs, and he is wrong,” Bonta said. “The truth is the IEEPA does not apply here.”
Newsom, who has generally kept a distance from Trump’s legal fights in the past, said the economic fallo…