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Attorney General William "Lawfare" Tong joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general and two governors yesterday in announcing a lawsuit to block President Trump’s latest efforts to impose tariffs to level the playing field for Americans.
“We’re back in court once again defending American families and businesses from yet another round of lawless Trump taxes," said Tong. "He needs to stop this trade war and tell us how he’s going to give us all our money back. We can’t afford to keep bankrolling stupidity."
Tong is upset that rather than completely backing off tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled against him, President Trump is now using a different law to enact up to 15% tariffs.
State Treasurer Erick Russell joined Tong to announce the lawfare together.
Like Tong, Russell also wants a refund on tariffs.
“These illegal Trump Tariffs ... destabilize state budgets, create uncertainty for businesses, and drive up the cost of groceries, energy, cars, clothing, and technology for working families," complained Russell. "This latest end around by the Trump administration flouts the Supreme Court’s recent decision and undermines the separation of powers that has long anchored American democracy."
The lawsuit contends that the latest actions by President Trump and his administration "violate the law, upend constitutional separation of powers, and violate the Administrative Procedure Act."
The case is entitled State of Oregon, et al., v. Trump, et al. and will be filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade.
“Trump’s new tariffs are another deeply devastating blow to consumers who are still reeling from the effects of his first illegal trade war,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal who called the tariffs a "lawless attempt at lining billionaires’ pockets."
"He is at it again with bogus Sec 122 tariffs that his own lawyers at the Supreme Court admitted were not applicable," argued Congressman Joe Courtney. "These sweeping indiscriminate tariffs cause crippling uncertainty into the economy and increasing costs for Americans during an affordability crisis."
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro whined that Trump was just trying a "new and baseless" method for imposing tariffs.
Comptroller Sean Scanlon seems to think Connecticut citizens should get "the $1,200 per person refund they deserve" instead of Trump "doubling down" on tariffs.
The democrats all expressed how proud they were of Tong's legal efforts.
Tong joined CNBC today to boast about his latest lawsuit against the Trump Admin.
He complained Trump is trying to use power he doesn't have, but CNBC host Joe Kernan pushed back, asking Tong if he thought Trump's intent with tariffs was to make things worse for the United States or if he thought Trump was genuinely trying to help Americans.
Tong said he hoped that Trump's intent wasn't to hurt the people of this country, but in the same breath insisted that is exactly what Trump is doing. Tong accused Trump of "brazenly" and "overtly" breaking the law, and predicted "a lot of pain and suffering" for people as a result of the latest tariffs.
The Trump Administration responded to the lawsuit, indicating the President is "using his authority granted by Congress to address fundamental international payments problems and to deal with our country's large and serious balance-of-payments deficits" and promised to "vigorously defend the President's action in court."
Meanwhile, the people of Connecticut are absolutely sick of the non-stop lawfare from Tong, a guy whose official Facebook page features a picture of him center stage at an Indivisible-organized "Hands Off" protest, promising to fight every single thing the Trump Administration does.
The comments about Tong's latest lawfare were brutal.
People want their Attorney General to be focused on fighting for all of the people in the state, and not just advancing a biased, anti-Trump agenda.
They pointed out there are more pressing issues in the state, like fighting the outrageous public benefits charge on electric bills, focusing on "illegal actions and corruption" inside Connecticut, and making the state more affordable for families and friendlier for businesses.
Lastly, people want to know how much all this lawfare is really costing the state because no one believes there is "no net cost to the state" for the 49 legal actions the Attorney General's office has either launched or joined.
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