The Supreme Court has struck down Trump’s unlawful tariffs, which we've been paying for about a y...

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• 1The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that tariffs constitute a form of taxation power reserved to Congress under Article I of the Constitution, not an emergency regulatory tool available to the president
• 2Chief Justice John Roberts's majority opinion noted that Trump's interpretation of IEEPA would give the president power to impose 'unbounded tariffs' unconstrained by procedural limitations—a 'transformative expansion' of executive authority
• 3Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated he was 'a little surprised' by the ruling but indicated the administration would pursue tariffs under different legal authorities, including a new 10 percent global tariff announced to take effect within three days
• 4The tariffs struck down included both reciprocal tariffs on trading partners and tariffs targeting fentanyl trafficking from Mexico, Canada, and China—the latter of which the administration credited with decreasing fentanyl deaths
• 5Justice Brett Kavanaugh's dissent argued that the major questions doctrine should not apply to emergency statutes and contended that IEEPA's text, historical practice, and precedent clearly authorized the president's tariff authority