Posted on 09/18/2025 12:37:16 PM PDT by DFG
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Nov. 5 in the pair of challenges to President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The court on Thursday morning released an updated calendar for its November argument session that reflects the addition of the tariffs dispute, which the justices added to their docket for the 2025-26 term on Sept. 9.
The dispute over Trump’s tariffs is operating on a highly expedited schedule. The government will file its opening brief on Friday, just 10 days after the court announced that it had granted review; the challengers’ briefs will follow just over one month after that. Both sides had urged the court to act quickly. The Trump administration has argued that the ruling by a federal appeals court that the tariffs are unlawful “has disrupted highly impactful, sensitive, ongoing diplomatic trade negotiations,” while the challengers have pointed to the “severe economic hardships” caused by the tariffs.
To accommodate the addition of the tariffs dispute to the November argument calendar, the case that had initially been scheduled for Nov. 5 was moved to Nov. 4, and Hamm v. Smith, a death-penalty case that had originally been scheduled for Nov. 4, was taken off the November calendar. It presumably will be rescheduled at a later date.
Even if Congress is supposed to deal with tariffs, the Supreme Court has to allow those the are negotiated to continue. We cannot afford to return the tariff money back to every country that paid it. That would be a disaster.
Ultimately the Trade Act of 1974 gives POTUS broad authority to set tariffs. At some point SCOTUS will uphold that authority.
I certainly hope so for many reasons.
If this goes bad is it retro active or is it they just hate Trump? Presidents have been setting tariffs for 248 years. So do we give all of that back?
IMO if they were inclined to rule against Trump, they would have paused the tariffs. But instead they have let them continue, which implies to me they will eventually rule in favor of Trump.
did anyone look at the court of appeals decision? I’d be curious to hear the reasoning
“while the challengers have pointed to the “severe economic hardships” caused by the tariffs.”
That’s there problem. With that logic why not sue over corporate income taxes? Excuse taxes? Sales taxes? They cause “economic hardships”.
EXCISE
In the meantime, Trump was right...the EU should stop buying BUT they need it....
The President needs to take the tariff off India.....who sells it TOTALLY to the EU.
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