Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will decide whether President Trump can impose his most sweeping tariffs, setting up a major test of one of the pillars of the president’s economic agenda.
The high court agreed to review lower court decisions that found Mr. Trump did not have the authority to issue many of his global tariffs under an emergency powers law. The Justice Department appealed one of those rulings, from a federal appeals court, to the Supreme Court last week and asked it to move swiftly.
The Trump administration has argued that upholding the ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit would put the United States at a disadvantage and expose the nation to retaliatory trade policies.
The case is the first in which the Supreme Court will directly decide the legality of one of Mr. Trump’s second-term policies. The high court has been asked roughly two dozen times to intervene in challenges to many of the president’s initiatives, but on an interim emergency basis.
The justices said arguments in the tariffs case would take place in the first week of November.
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