WH Signals Emergency Appeal to High Court on Tariff Block

The Trump administration is considering asking the Supreme Court as soon as Friday to overturn a ruling by a U.S. trade court that blocked most of President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade unanimously ruled Wednesday that Trump overstepped his constitutional authority by imposing across-the-board tariffs on U.S. trading partners. The court ruled the Constitution gives Congress exclusive authority to regulate commerce with other countries that is not overridden by the president’s powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to safeguard the economy.

“President Trump is in the process of rebalancing America’s trading agreements with the entire world, bringing tens of billions of dollars in tariff revenues to our country, and finally ending the United States of America from being ripped off,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at Thursday’s briefing, which aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform.

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