The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to rescue President Trump’s tariffs invalidated by lower courts.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down the bulk of Trump’s tariffs in a 7-4 decision last week, ruling the president can’t use emergency powers to justify levies imposed on dozens of trading partners.

“The Federal Circuit’s decision casts doubt upon the President’s most significant economic and foreign-affairs policy—a policy that implicates sensitive, ongoing foreign negotiations and urgent national-security concerns,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the administration’s Supreme Court petition.

The petition has not yet been publicly docketed, but a copy was provided to The Hill by the plaintiffs.

Sauer urged the justices to expedi

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