The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to quickly decide the legality of President Donald Trump’s broad tariff regime and overturn a lower court ruling that found he exceeded his authority.

The Justice Department in a filing late Wednesday urged the justices to overturn a 7-4 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” and many other tariffs he instituted violated federal law.

The court found that the Constitution gives Congress the power to set tariffs, and a 1977 law invoked by Trump did not explicitly give him the power to impose the tariffs at issue, only to “regulate” imports.

The petition to the Supreme Court from the Trump administration, and accompanying request for a speedy resolution, argued that “the st

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