Supreme court could issue ruling on legal challenge to Trump’s tariffs today – US politics live | US news
What is the tariff legal case about?
The Supreme Court’s decision is due to be announced at 10 a.m. ET (3 p.m. GMT), but it may not be related to the tariffs case; because the court does not announce in advance which case it decided on.
Lower courts ruled last year that the president overstepped his authority to impose so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on imports from most of the United States’ foreign trade partners.
They backed a lawsuit filed by businesses affected by the tariffs in 12 US states that said Trump did not have the authority to use a 1977 law for emergency use only to impose such tariffs on individual countries.
His administration appealed these lower court decisions to the Supreme Court.
The justices heard the case in November; How they govern will be widely seen as a sign of whether they will thwart the president.
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The Supreme Court could issue a decision today on a legal challenge to President Trump’s global tariffs; If this decision is approved by the court, it would overturn one of the US president’s core policies and further disrupt the world economy.
During hearings in the case last year, the justices appeared to question the legality of the tariffs that Trump imposed through a national emergency law.
Meanwhile, Minneapolis remains on edge a week after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in her car.
Yesterday saw more aggressive arrests by federal officers, hundreds of whom have been sent to the city this week both to carry out Trump’s plan to deport immigrants and to suppress protesters.
Videos from Tuesday showed armed officers dragging a woman who said she was disabled from her car and grabbing hold of another man by breaking his car windows.
