(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Supreme Court Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s use of an emergency law to impose sweeping tariffs on most U.S. trading partners.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices invalidated Trump’s tariffs.
The high court heard oral arguments in November in the case, which centered on Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to enact his tariffs on most countries, including a 10% global tariff and a set of higher, so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on certain nations.
In April, Trump declared the U.S. trade deficit a “national emergency,” and lawyers for the administration have cited that declaration as the legal basis for invoking IEEPA.
Essentially the SCOTUS decision reaffirms that Congress posses the “power of the purse.”
