Wallach

Lori Wallach, director at Rethink Trade, which supports ending de minimis for consumer safety reasons, says the end of the exemption is significant "on paper", but she fears the administration is taking steps that will weaken its implementation.

Dean and her attorney, Ian Wallach, said they have yet to access the affidavit behind the search warrant, which would lay out the probable cause police used to justify their actions.

“Normally, you can get access to the affidavit behind the search warrant. We’ve not been able to do that,” Wallach said.

Indeed, Trump’s deregulatory project was the least successful of any recent president: It was “a remarkably regular occurrence” for Trump’s deregulatory initiatives to be struck down in court, observed Philip A. Wallach and Kelly Kennedy of the Brookings Institution.

Philip Wallach, a senior fellow focusing on Congress and the separation of powers at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, told Salon that he is also concerned about impoundment.