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With how broadly President Trump has applied tariffs on almost everything being imported into the United States, it can seem like the president has almost unchecked authority to do so. However, the fallout from Trump’s tariffs has sparked a new legal question: is this even part of the president’s powers? A lawsuit brought forward by a wide range of plaintiffs, including the maker of popular board games like Wingspan and Tokaido, argues that Trump has exceeded his authority by implementing these tariffs.

Stonemaier Games, who make numerous board games, is just one of the companies that have been hit hard by the Trump Administration’s recent tariffs. Because so much manufacturing is done in China, they’ve seen prices increase massively in the past month. Because of this, they’ve joined a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the tariffs, which is represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation.

For context, Trump has been using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to implement his tariffs. This law provides that under a national emergency declaration, the president may take action to deal with “any unusual and extraordinary threat” to national security, which includes the economy. However, the lawsuit brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation argues that the power to impose tariffs is exclusively granted to Congress by the Constitution and that President Trump has exceeded his authority in this instance.

Not only does the lawsuit seek to lift the tariffs and impose the traditional limit on presidential authority, but it is also seeking compensation for the plaintiffs for tariffs that have been paid already. The case of this magnitude is likely to take a very long time to play out in courts and could even end up before the Supreme Court, so we’ll have to keep an eye out on how Stonemaier Games fares in the coming months.

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