A group of 24 U.S. states will sue President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday in the first legal challenge to his newly imposed 10 percent global tariffs, alleging that the president cannot sidestep a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that invalidated most of his previous tariffs on imported goods by citing new legal authority, according to a spokesperson for the Oregon Attorney General's office. The mostly Democratic-led states, including New York, California and Oregon, argue the new tariffs, which Trump announced immediately after the high court ruling on February 20, are also illegal. The tariffs were imposed for 150 days under the Trade Act of 1974, which is meant to address short-term monetary emergencies, not routine trade deficits that arise when a wealthy nation like the United States imports more than it exports, according to the states' lawsuit which will be filed in the New York-based U.S. Court of International Trade. Trump's February 20 executive order imposed a 10 percent tariff on imports, but U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that those rates