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Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶40

It is also telling that in IEEPA's “half century of existence,” no President has invoked the statute to impose any tariffs—let alone tariffs of this magnitude and scope. Na tional Federation of Independent Business, 595 U. S., at 119.Presidents have, by contrast, regularly invoked IEEPA for other purposes. CRS, C. Casey, J. Elsea, & L. Rosen, The International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Origins, Evolution, and Use 18–21 (2025). At the same time, they have invoked other statutes—but never IEEPA—to impose tariffs, on products ranging from car tires to washing machines. See, e. g., Presidential Proclamation No. 8414, 3 CFR 115 (2009 Comp.); Presidential Proclamation No. 9694, 83 Fed. Reg. 3553 (2018). And those tariffs did not “even beg[in] to approach the size or scope” of the IEEPA tariffs at issue here. Nebraska, 600 U. S., at 502 (quoting Alabama Assn., 594 U. S., at 765). The “…
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