US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision that found many of his sweeping tariffs were illegal.
In a petition to the apex court, the Trump administration asked the justices to quickly intervene to rule that the President has the power to impose such import taxes on foreign nations.
Solicitor General John Sauer wrote that the lower court’s erroneous decision has disrupted highly impactful, sensitive, ongoing diplomatic trade negotiations and cast a pall of legal uncertainty over the President’s efforts to protect the country by preventing an unprecedented economic and foreign policy crisis.
A divided US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week ruled 7-4 that the tariffs Trump brought in through an emergency economic powers act did not fall within Mr Trump’s mandate and that setting levies was “a core Congressional power”. The case could upend Trump’s economic and foreign policy agenda and force the US to refund billions in tariffs.
Trump had justified the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which gives the president the power to act against “unusual and extraordinary” threats.
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