In tariffs case, will the Supreme Court limit Trump like it did Biden?
At the Supreme Court on Wednesday, justices will hear a high-stakes challenge to President Donald Trump’s tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Businesses and states argue the law doesn’t clearly authorize tariffs, invoking the court’s major questions doctrine that previously curtailed several Biden-era initiatives. A federal appeals court agreed; the administration counters that emergency and national security powers permit broad presidential discretion, citing a dissent, Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s writings, and a 1981 decision tied to the Iranian crisis. The case tests whether the conservative majority applies its exacting standard to Trump’s economic policy.
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