PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear a case on Tuesday led by Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, challenging tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

Attorney General Rayfield filed the lawsuit in April in the Court of International Trade in New York.

The lawsuit argues that the president does not have the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs, rather, Congress has the power to enact tariffs under Article I of the Constitution.

While President Trump’s executive orders state the president has the authority to impose tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Rayfield argues that law only applies in an emergency with an “unusual and extraordinary” threat from abroad and does not give the president the power to imp

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