{"id":2506899,"date":"2025-11-05T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tariffs-case-marks-latest-supreme-court-look-at-presidential-powers\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:43:26","slug":"tariffs-case-marks-latest-supreme-court-look-at-presidential-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tariffs-case-marks-latest-supreme-court-look-at-presidential-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs case marks latest Supreme Court look at presidential powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftariffs-case-marks-latest-supreme-court-look-at-presidential-powers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2506899&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh supreme Court is set to hear arguments regarding the limits of presidential power versus congressional authority in the case involving former President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariffs. The case, combining *Learning Resources v. Trump* and *Trump v. V.O.S. Selections*, challenges Trump&#8217;s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs. Lower courts have repeatedly ruled against the governance, making this Supreme Court hearing a notable test of executive authority.<\/p>\n<p>Central to the dispute is whether Congress authorized the president to levy tariffs under IEEPA, which grants broad powers during national emergencies but dose not explicitly mention tariffs. The Justice Department argues that regulating importation, including through tariffs, falls within the president&#8217;s emergency powers and that invalidating the tariffs would undermine U.S. trade negotiations and foreign relations. Critics counter that tariff authority constitutionally resides with Congress,not the president,pointing out that the statute&#8217;s language does not explicitly include tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>This case is part of a broader series of Supreme Court decisions examining the separation of powers, including recent rulings that limited presidential and judicial authority. It marks the first major Trump policy facing Supreme Court scrutiny as his return to office in 2024, with legal experts anticipating a challenging path for the administration. The Court&#8217;s ruling will have significant implications for presidential authority in trade and emergency powers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump tariffs case marks latest Supreme Court look at presidential powers<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2389039\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court<\/a> will once again consider where executive powers end and congressional powers begin during arguments on Wednesday over President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> sweeping &ldquo;Liberation Day&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tariffs\/\">tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the consolidated cases of <em>Learning Resources v. Trump<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Trump v. V.O.S. Selections<\/em>, the president&rsquo;s ability to levy tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act is under scrutiny. The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\">Trump administration<\/a> has suffered a trio of losses over the tariffs in lower courts but faces its biggest test on Wednesday before a court that has so far handed Trump several victories via the emergency docket.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3873776\/bessent-ringside-seat-supreme-court-tariff-hearing\/\">Bessent says he&rsquo;ll have &lsquo;ringside seat&rsquo; at Supreme Court tariff hearing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3872294\/trump-will-not-visit-supreme-court-tariffs-case\/\">Trump will not visit Supreme Court during tariffs case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3870646\/trump-supreme-court-striking-down-tariffs-disarm-international-trade\/\">Trump tells Supreme Court striking down tariffs would &lsquo;disarm&rsquo; him on international trade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-latest-test-of-separation-of-powers-for-supreme-court\">Latest test of separation of powers for Supreme Court<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court has reviewed multiple separation of powers cases in recent years, often curbing the authority of the branch it sees as having exerted too much power.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the high court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/1533584\/supreme-court-strikes-down-bidens-costly-student-loan-relief-plan\/\">struck down<\/a> then-President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\">Joe Biden&rsquo;s<\/a> attempt to wipe away $400 billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of ...\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">student loan debt<\/a>, finding his actions exceeded his statutory authority and that waiving the debt required clear congressional authorization, which he did not have.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent major cases where the Supreme Court limited powers came in 2024, when the justices ruled a president is <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3030301\/supreme-court-finds-some-immunity-for-presidents-complicating-trump-indictment\/\">entitled to immunity<\/a> for official acts, and earlier this year, when the high court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3455997\/supreme-court-nationwide-injunctions-trump-birthright-citizenship-case\/\">significantly reined in<\/a> the power for federal courts to issue universal injunctions &mdash; blocking laws or policies for the entire country rather than just the parties in a case.<\/p>\n<p>The tariffs will be Trump&rsquo;s first major policy under scrutiny at the Supreme Court since he returned to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a> in January, with many legal experts <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3867854\/trump-supreme-court-merits-docket\/\">expecting an uphill battle<\/a> for the administration.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-whether-congress-authorized-some-tariff-power-to-the-president-at-the-center-of-case\">Whether Congress authorized some tariff power to the president at the center of case<\/h2>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-justice\/\">Justice Department<\/a>, in its brief to the high court, laid out the negative effects striking down the tariffs would have on the president&rsquo;s ability to conduct foreign affairs and trade negotiations with other countries, while also arguing that IEEPA&rsquo;s power to regulate importation in emergencies includes a tariff power.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump&rsquo;s IEEPA tariffs are plainly lawful. Congress has long granted the President broad authority to employ tariffs to address emergencies. IEEPA continues that tradition by expressly authorizing the President to &lsquo;regulate &hellip; importation&rsquo; of foreign goods to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-weighs-trumps-emergency-tariff-powers\/\" title=\"SCOTUS Weighs Trump&#039;s Emergency ...s\">address declared national emergencies<\/a>,&rdquo; the brief said.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the president&rsquo;s claims have pointed to the lack of the word &ldquo;tariff&rdquo; in the text of IEEPA, arguing that the absence alone should settle the dispute over whether the president has tariff power under that law.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The biggest reason is that the statute doesn&rsquo;t say tariffs. I know that the president&rsquo;s argument is that the statute allows the president to regulate the importation, but it doesn&rsquo;t say tariffs,&rdquo; Oliver Dunford, a senior lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And there are loads of other statutes in the U.S. Code that do mention tariffs or duties. And so it seems unlikely that Congress would include the specific tariff power in all of those statutes, but not include it in IEEPA,&rdquo; Dunford said.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has continuously stressed the ramifications of striking down the tariffs, arguing in a reply brief to the high court that ruling the tariffs are unlawful would &ldquo;effectively disarm&rdquo; Trump in international <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trade\/\">trade<\/a> talks, pointing to the trade deals Trump has brokered after announcing the &ldquo;Liberation Day&rdquo; tariffs in April.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Plaintiffs would <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >unwind trade arrangements worth trillions<\/a> of dollars, as President Trump has leveraged the IEEPA tariffs into negotiated framework deals with major trading partners&mdash;including the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and now China&mdash;that address underlying causes of the declared emergencies,&rdquo; the DOJ reply brief said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Disrupting those results, the President has stated, &lsquo;would render America captive to the abuses that it has endured from far more aggressive countries,&rsquo; and would destroy the &lsquo;unprecedented success&rsquo; that has made America &lsquo;a strong, financially viable, and respected country again,&#8217;&rdquo; the brief added.<\/p>\n<p>Dunford, who led an amicus brief opposing the administration&rsquo;s stance on IEEPA to the Supreme Court, said he believes there will be some justices who agree with that argument, but that ultimately the tariff power is explicitly Congress&rsquo;s &mdash; not the president&rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s true that the president does have a little more leeway in foreign policy; he&rsquo;s the executive, he&rsquo;s the one who travels around on behalf of the government, but the tariff power and the regulation of foreign commerce are congressional powers vested by the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/constitution\/\">Constitution<\/a> in Congress. So it&rsquo;s not accurate to say that the tariff power is a traditional foreign policy power of the president,&rdquo; Dunford said. &ldquo;If the Constitution didn&rsquo;t vest the tariff power and the regulation of foreign commerce power in Congress, then the president would have a much better argument.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because the Constitution does expressly vest tariff power and the foreign commerce power with Congress, then at the very least, the president would need some authorization from Congress to do what he&rsquo;s doing,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3867854\/trump-supreme-court-merits-docket\/\">TRUMP MAY FINALLY GET SOME LOSSES AS SUPREME COURT TURNS TO MERITS DOCKET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arguments in the consolidated case will begin at the Supreme Court at 10 a.m., with Treasury Secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/scott-bessent\/\">Scott Bessent<\/a> saying earlier this week <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3873776\/bessent-ringside-seat-supreme-court-tariff-hearing\/\">he will be in attendance<\/a> for the oral arguments. Once arguments have concluded, the Supreme Court is expected to release its ruling in the tariffs case in the coming months. <\/p>\n<p>The case will be the first of several expected tests of Trump&rsquo;s authority before the justices throughout his remaining three years in the White House. Next month, the justices will hear a case over Trump&rsquo;s bid to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3818917\/supreme-court-to-hear-ftc-firing-lawsuit-challenge-humphreys-executor\/\">fire a Democrat-appointed FTC commissioner<\/a> without cause, which will also be a key case for presidential power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court reviews Trump tariffs, executive vs. Congress powers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2506900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25300324932366_42c8f2.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[55261,32285,49127,32275,50406],"class_list":["post-2506899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-government-authority","tag-legal-case","tag-presidential-powers","tag-supreme-court","tag-tariffs-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25300324932366_42c8f2.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506905,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506899\/revisions\/2506905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}