The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld a lower court’s decision that the Republican president’s use of this 1977 law exceeded his authority, news agency Reuters reported.
The court ruled that the Trump administration’s interpretation that the law at issue – the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA – grants Trump the power he claims to impose tariffs would intrude on the powers of Congress and violate a legal principle called the “major questions” doctrine, it said.
Trump’s tariffs based on IEEPA stood at more than $175 billion. And that amount likely would need to be refunded with a Supreme Court ruling against the IEEPA-based tariffs, Reuters report said.
IEEPA lets a president regulate commerce in a national emergency. Trump became the first president to use IEEPA to impose tariffs, it noted.
Read here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/607/24-1287/
