Trump, Supreme Court and tariffs
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The Trump administration signaled Thursday that it may ask the Supreme Court as soon as Friday to step in and revive a sweeping tariffs policy blocked by the U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday evening.
The sheer brazenness of Trump’s power grabs has steadily come into focus via a stream of major judicial rebukes.
The Trump administration threatened to go to the Supreme Court as soon as Friday if a federal appeals court did not halt a ruling to block many of the president’s tariffs.
The administration immediately sought a ruling to allow the U.S. to continue imposing stiff tariffs, and the White House said the Supreme Court needed to intervene.
The justices appear to be trying to avoid a direct conflict with the Trump administration while also blocking certain presidential actions.
The tariffs overturned decades of U.S. trade policy, disrupted global commerce, rattled financial markets and raised the risk of higher prices and recession in the United States and around the world.
As the administration ramps up deportation efforts and flirts with suspending habeas corpus, immigrants and attorneys say fear — not the law — is driving current U.S. policy.
Federal judges ruled that the president had gone beyond his authority in imposing levies on goods imported from around the world.
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A little-known federal court threw a giant monkey wrench into a foundational part of President Donald Trump's economic agenda by striking down most of the sweeping tariffs he has imposed since taking office.