The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to quickly decide the legality of President Donald Trump’s broad tariff regime and overturn a lower court ruling that found he exceeded his authority.
The Justice Department in a filing late Wednesday urged the justices to overturn a 7-4 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” and many other tariffs he instituted violated federal law.
The court found that the Constitution gives Congress the power to set tariffs, and a 1977 law invoked by Trump did not explicitly give him the power to impose the tariffs at issue, only to “regulate” imports.
