Believing Han Duck-soo, Yoon’s former prime minister, had a better chance of defeating Lee, PPP leaders consisting primarily of Yoon loyalists held late night, emergency meetings to cancel Kim’s nomination and push a candidacy by Han, an independent. The attempt was rejected the next day in a vote by party members.
So in February he declared thean emergency and used it to justify tariffs on
. Then last month he declared America’s long-running trade deficits an emergency andAt least seven lawsuits are challenging his use of that power. And on Wednesday the, ruling that he’d overstepped his authority.
The emergency powers act, thedeclared, did not allow the use of global tariffs. Moreover, it said, the tariffs did not address the problems the president had identified. The Trump administration has appealed the ruling, and a federal appeals court on Thursday allowed the government to continue collecting the IEEPA import taxes while the appeals continue.
Congress has made some motion toward reasserting its authority. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, for instance, have introduced legislation that would require presidents to justify new tariffs to Congress. Lawmakers would then have 60 days to approve the tariffs. Otherwise, they would expire.
But their proposal appears to stand little chance of becoming law, given most Republican lawmakers’ deference to Trump and the president’s veto power.Ahead of a busy travel week for the Easter holiday, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, a Republican, unequivocally called on people to vaccinate themselves and their children. There are no known measles cases in Nebraska, but an outbreak is active in neighboring Kansas.
“If you’re not vaccinated, you’re going to get measles,” Pillen said last week.Those types of statements are important for the public to hear leaders say from the top down, said Dr. Oxiris Barbot, who was New York City’s health commissioner during the 2019 measles outbreak.
Barbot worked with local rabbis, as well as doctors and nurses in the Jewish community, to send messages that encouraged vaccine uptake. Calls from Trump and Azar, who urged the public to vaccinate, helped her make the case, too.When national leaders distance themselves from that message, she said it “starts to erode the effectiveness of people who are trying to convey those messages at the local level.”