(The Center Square) – The small businesses that challenged President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs told the U.S. Supreme Court that the import taxes are "not survivable" for some U.S. businesses.

"It is bedrock constitutional law – the very first clause of the section setting forth congressional powers – that Congress, not the President, has authority over all taxes on the American people," attorneys for the small businesses wrote in a memo to the nation's highest court.

The small businesses, represented by the Texas-based nonprofit Liberty Justice Center, urged the Supreme Court to take up the case.

"Because of the importance of the issues and the harms that Respondents are experiencing every day the unlawful tariffs are in place, Respondents acquiesce in the government's petition fo

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