California Governor Gavin Newsom said his state is suing to halt President Donald Trump’s tariffs, citing harm to consumers and businesses in the world’s fifth-largest economy.The state will file a complaint Wednesday in San Francisco federal court challenging Trump’s use of emergency powers to enact broad tariffs against Mexico,

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to limit the effect of President Donald Trump’s tariffs by working with international trade partners could hit constitutional roadblocks. Newsom announced April 4 he would ask trade partners to exempt California-made products from any retaliatory tariffs and seek to develop new “strategic trade

What he can actually do, I think, is pretty limited,” said Sean Randolph, senior director of the Council Economic Institute.