Supreme Court strikes down Trump tariffs

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said a 1977 law doesn't give the president broad authority to issue tariffs, dealing a significant setback to President Donald Trump's economic agenda. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that "the Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch." Roberts said the tariffs violated the major questions doctrine. Trump's interpretation of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act would be an "expansion of the President's authority over tariff policy" that Congress didn't intend. "There is no exception to the major questions doctrine for emergency statutes," the majority wrote. "Nor does the fact that tariffs implicate foreign affairs render he doctrine inapplicable. The Framers gave 'Congress alone' the power to impose tariffs during peacetime." Twelve states, five small businesses and two Illinois-based toymakers have challenged Trump's authority to impose tariffs under the 19