Supreme Court to decide if Trump’s global tariffs are legal
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the question of whether the world prices of the Trump administration are legal.
On Tuesday, he indicated that he would examine the lower court decisions which found that the president did not have the legal power to promulgate the prices, which were introduced by a law on emergency economic powers.
The judges said they would hear arguments in the case in the first week of November – an accelerated calendar.
This will consist of the greatest test of the presidential authority of Donald Trump and his signature economic policy, potentially forcing the United States to reimburse billions of prices.
Until now, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court has ready to temporarily register Trump’s policies and its requests for emergency orders. But this case will mark the first evaluation by the court of the legal basis of one of the deepest policies of its administration.
Trump had invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers (IEEPA) to impose samples ranging from 10% to 50% to dozens of business partners. He used the emergency law separately to slap prices on China, Mexico and Canada.
These prices remained in place as the dispute occurs, even if a federal court of appeal judged last month that Trump had exceeded his authority. The power to impose taxes and prices continues to belong to the congress, tried the court.
Trump had criticized the court of appeal and his decision on social truth, saying: “If it is authorized to stand, this decision would literally destroy the United States of America.”
The first tariff challenge was brought by a group of small businesses and a dozen states, on the grounds that the invocation by Trump of the IEEPA to impose the prices was illegal.
