Trump Files Tariff Challenge at Supreme Court

Few Americans knew of or understood the impact of judicial sedition by the Democrats. We, the people, assumed we vote for President and Congress and the power lies with them not some random radical judge in a deep blue district

The people did not know and now they do.

The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the president’s authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 law giving him certain emergency powers. The request came five days after a federal appeals court in Washington struck down the majority of the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump since February in a series of executive orders. Telling the justices that“the stakes in this case could not be higher,” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the justices to review the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and to do so on an expedited basis, suggesting that the court hear oral arguments in early November.

With a number of setbacks in the lower courts and the administration’s heavy use of tariffs, the case before the Supreme Court is high stakes.

President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to quickly uphold his global tariffs, seeking review in a case that could affect trillions of dollars in trade and give him broad new leverage over the world economy. The appeal calls for putting the case on a highly expedited schedule with arguments in early November. It follows a federal appeals court decision that said Trump can’t impose wide-scale import taxes by invoking a 1977 law designed to address national emergencies…. The appeal will test a conservative-controlled court that so far has largely accommodated Trump as he asserts powers never claimed by his predecessors. Assuming they take up the case, the justices will be grappling with a law that gives the president a panoply of tools to address national security, foreign policy and economic emergencies but doesn’t explicitly mention tariffs as one of those powers. The 7-4 ruling from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday upheld a decision by the US Court of International Trade. Both courts said the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn’t authorize such sweeping import taxes through a provision that says the president can “regulate” the “importation” of property to address an emergency (Bloomberg).

SCOTUS Blog: In his 34-page filing, [U.S. Solicitor General D. John] Sauer emphasized that Trump had determined that the “tariffs and the ensuing trade negotiations with all our major trading partners are pulling America back from the precipice of disaster, restoring its respect and standing in the world, eliminating decades of unfair and asymmetric trade policies that have gutted our manufacturing capacity and military readiness, and inducing our trading partners to invest trillions of dollars in the American economy” (SCOTUS Blog).