The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on President Donald Trump’s global tariffs. The president had appealed to the high court last week.
SCOTUS takes the case
The Supreme Court will now decide if the president has the power to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
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A federal appeals court had ruled Trump overstepped his authority by imposing tariffs. The president’s team quickly appealed to the high court.
The justices asked the government and a group of small businesses to expedite briefings in the case, setting a deadline for Friday, Sept., 19 to submit them. The court will begin to hear arguments during the first week of November.
A ruling would normally be expected by the end of next June, but the court said it would expedite review.
Appeals court ruling
The federal appeals court ruled in late August that Trump improperly invoked emergency powers. Despite that ruling, the tariffs will be allowed to go on until the end of October.
The court said, “it seems unlikely that Congress intended, in enacting IEEPA, to depart from its past practice and grant the President unlimited authority to impose tariffs.” The federal law was enacted in 1977 and grants the president the power to impose tariffs during an emergency to tackle an “unusual and extraordinary threat.”
The Trump administration argued not allowing the tariffs would lead to a “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment” and interrupt ongoing negotiations with other countries.
Trump and the Supreme Court
The president has seen some recent successes in rulings from the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.
The court paused a ruling this week from a federal court judge that restricted federal immigration officers from making certain stops in cities like Los Angeles.
The justices cleared the way for the administration to revoke the provisional legal status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants. They have also allowed the president to fire heads of federal agencies and freeze grants.
