Numerous states and small businesses argued the president illegally used emergency powers to set import taxes on goods from nearly every country in the world.
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump does not have the power to impose wide-sweeping tariffs across the world.
Six of the court’s nine justices ruled that the president does not have the authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which the Trump administration argued gave them the ability to do so.
The majority found that the Constitution “very clearly” gives Congress the power to impose taxes, which
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