The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear arguments over President Donald Trump’s sweeping world tariffs, taking over a fast-moving enchantment that offers with the centerpiece of the administration’s financial agenda.
In the meantime, the tariffs will stay in place whereas the court docket hears the case.
Trump is urgent the justices to overturn a lower court ruling that discovered his administration acted unlawfully by imposing lots of his import taxes, together with the “Liberation Day” tariffs the White House introduced in April and tariffs positioned this yr towards China, Mexico and Canada that had been designed to fight fentanyl getting into the United States.
The case places a serious part of the American financial system on the conservative court docket’s docket. And it raises a elementary query in regards to the energy of the president to levy emergency tariffs absent express approval from Congress.
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