President Donald Trump’s tariffs are at the center of a legal battle after a federal trade court recently held that they were illegal.
A Supreme Court decision could even be in the works after two toy companies asked for the high court’s intervention in their challenge to the tariffs.
In April, the president invoked an emergency powers law to impose 10 percent baseline tariffs on all trading partners and higher reciprocal tariffs on certain countries.
At issue is whether the emergency law authorized Trump to issue these sweeping levies.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to impose tariffs. However, it has long delegated that authority, or said that presidents can do so on their own, with certain limitations under law….
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