President Trump’s DOJ has appealed to the US Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling on his sweeping tariffs.
Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected President Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs in a 7-4 ruling.
“The Government appeals a decision of the Court of International Trade setting aside five Executive Orders that imposed tariffs of unlimited duration on nearly all goods from nearly every country in the world, holding that the tariffs were not authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. § 1701 et seq. Because we agree that IEEPA’s grant of presidential authority to ‘regulate’ imports does not authorize the tariffs imposed by the Executive Orders, we affirm,” the Federal Appeals Court said.
In May, the Court of International Trade in New York ruled that President Trump exceeded his authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA).
US Attorney General Pam Bondi said last Friday that the DOJ will immediately appeal a federal appeals court ruling on Trump’s tariffs.
On Wednesday, the DOJ formally filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court.
As reported by CNBC:
President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday appealed to the Supreme Court a federal court ruling that said that most of his global tariffs are illegal, setting up a legal clash that could determine the future of his trade agenda.
While the formal appeal was expected and the court still needs to accept it, this likely now puts the fate of Trump’s sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” into the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The filing comes after a federal appeals court on Aug. 29 said that most of Trump’s April 2 “reciprocal tariffs” were illegal, throwing the central tenet of his economic agenda into limbo.
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