Tue, 09 Sep 2025

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 Supreme Court to decide if Trump's global tariffs are legal

It will amount to the biggest test of Trump's presidential authority and his signature economic policy.

* The Supreme Court has agreed to review lower court decisions that found the Trump administration's global tariffs were unlawful.
* The court will hear arguments in November on whether the president had the legal authority to enact the tariffs using an emergency economic powers act.
* A federal appeals court previously ruled that Trump exceeded his authority and that Congress, not the president, has the power to impose taxes and tariffs.
* If the Supreme Court sides with lower courts, billions of dollars in tariffs collected by import taxes may have to be refunded to countries affected by the levies.
* The case will be a test of President Trump's presidential authority and his signature economic policy.
* The US administration can still impose tariffs under other laws, but those would be limited in scope.
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