Supreme Court Weighs Emergency Tariff Power

The Supreme Court is deciding right now if the President can tax everything you buy just by

declaring an emergency. This is a massive test of executive power. Trump used an old

1977 emergency law to slap tariffs on almost every country, but lower courts

shut it down, ruling that the power to regulate trade isn't the same as the power

to tax it. If the Court agrees that this was an overreach, the government could

owe businesses over one hundred billion dollars in refunds. This ruling defines exactly where the

President's power ends and Congress's begins.