Supreme Court prepares to confront monumental case over Trump executive power and tariff authority
Economic imperative or executive overreach? That is the question the Supreme Court is preparing this week to confront, in one of its most monumental appeals over the scope of executive...
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Economic imperative or executive overreach? That is the question the Supreme Court is preparing this week to confront, in one of its most monumental appeals over the scope of executive power, a time-sensitive challenge to President Donald Trump 's expansive import tariffs over most countries. The justices will hear oral arguments Wednesday over lawsuits from a coalition of small businesses and several Democratic-led states , who say Trump has abused his authority by declaring a "national emergency" to impose levies on nearly every country in the world. At issue is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) gives the president that power. TRUMP CUTS CHINA TARIFF AFTER XI SIGNALS TOUGHER FENTANYL ENFORCEMENT, RARE-EARTH PAUSE Lower federal courts have ruled against the Executive Branch, but Trump's Justice Department warns "denial of tariff authority would expose our nation to trade retaliation without effective defenses." The financial and political stakes are enormous, with potential immediate effects on the domestic and global economies. Businesses and industries, large and small, are nervously watching how the Court will act. "The Supreme Court will decide whether or not Congress, in fact, gave the president the fairly broad authority that he's claimed to impose [tariffs] on, in a way that no president has used it before," said Thomas Dupree, a leading appellate attorney and a former top Justice Department official. "Not to say that's necessarily impermissible, but it is something that the Supreme Court has not seen in recent years and is going to weigh in on whether or not he's overstepped the authority that he has under the law." The consolidated, expedited appeals will be the first major test on the merits of the White House's aggressive second-term agenda to remake large swaths of the federal government, and the outsized role this president has so far played. The administration has been winning most of the emergency appeals at the Supreme…