The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will take up whether President Trump can use emergency powers to justify sweeping tariffs on trading partners across the globe, agreeing to the administration’s request to hear its appeal — and fast.
The expedited schedule will have the justices take the bench for oral arguments in the first week of November, a late addition to the calendar.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer has minced no words in describing the stakes, telling the justices that Trump’s tariffs are his “most significant economic and foreign-policy initiative.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a 7-4 decision rejected Trump’s assertion that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) justified his sweeping tariffs. The justices agreed to take up that cas