A federal appeals court ruled Friday many of President Donald Trump's tariff policies are unconstitutional but the ruling allows the measures to stay in place while the administration appeals to the Supreme Court.
The panel of 11 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled President Trump lacks the legal authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which has underpinned many of the orders that have increased tariffs on imports to the U.S.
"We discern no clear congressional authorization by IEEPA for tariffs of the magnitude of the Reciprocal Tariffs and Trafficking Tariffs," the court wrote in its ruling on Friday.
"We conclude Congress, in enacting IEEPA, did not give the President wide-ranging authority to impose tariffs of t