Along with Woldenberg's case, the Supreme Court heard a similar case
brought by five other small businesses and a group of Democratic state
attorneys general. In that case, a federal appeals court ruled many of
the president's tariffs are illegal.
CEO challenging Trump at Supreme Court could trigger wave of tariff refunds: "I definitely want my money back"
Rick Woldenberg says it's not in his nature, nor consistent with the mission of his Chicago-area toy business, to sit quietly in the face of an existential threat. So last April, a few weeks after the Trump administration unveiled sweeping tariffs on so-called "Liberation Day," he took action.
Woldenberg sued President Trump and his top advisers,
alleging in a 37-page complaint Mr. Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs
amounted to an illegal "Executive Branch power grab."
- After a lower court sided with Woldenberg in June, the Trump administration appealed, and on Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard the case to decide the fate of the president's signature economic policy.
The case is the first in which the Supreme Court will directly decide the legality of one of the most consequential of Mr. Trump's second-term policies. The high court has weighed in on an interim emergency basis on challenges to many of the president's initiatives, most recently in his bid to fire Federal Reserve commissioner Lisa Cook.
Woldenberg said he's confident the Court will grant him relief.
"We
and the hundreds of thousands of other similarly situated businesses
will get the unlawfully collected taxes rebated to us," --- he said.
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