President Donald Trump on Wednesday night asked the Supreme Court to quickly accept and rule on an appeal seeking to overturn lower court decisions that found most of his tariffs are illegal.

The request comes five days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit , in a 7-4 ruling, said that Trump overstepped his authority when he implemented the steep levies on virtually every country.

That decision threw a central pillar of Trump's trade agenda into doubt.

Trump is asking the Supreme Court to hear arguments on his appeal in early November and issue a final decision on the legality of the disputed tariffs soon afterward, according to filings obtained by NBC News from the plaintiffs in the case.

Normally, the Supreme Court would take as long as early next summer

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