US supreme court strikes down President Trump’s global tariffs
Gossip • Feb 20
The United States Supreme Court has struck down sweeping global tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
In a 6–3 decision delivered on Friday, the court affirmed a lower court’s finding that Trump’s reliance on the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to introduce the tariffs was unlawful.
It was a rare setback for the administration, from a Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority that has regularly backed Trump on various contentious cases since he took office.
The ruling was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who was joined by two of his fellow conservatives, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, and the three liberal justices. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.
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