Supreme Court Blocks Tariffs Hours After Trump Bragged They Wouldn’t
The Supreme Court struck down large swaths of President Donald Trump’s international tariff agenda on Friday, severely curtailing one of the president’s signature second-term policy projects.
In a 6-3 ruling, the court determined that Trump and his administration had exceeded their tariff powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA,) a 1977 law that allows the president to regulate certain aspects of international trade during a declared national emergency. The court did not prescribe any requirements or methods through which the administration would be forced to roll back the hundreds of punitive tariffs it has imposed on trade partners around the globe, but made abundantly clear that Trump was operating outside of the law in doing so.
