"The cross-ideological composition of the majority here stands as a sharp rebuke both to Trump and to those who glibly bemoan that this conservative Court always gives Trump everything he wants. In the six-Justice majority, three conservatives - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett - joined forces with liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson."
"Here, Trump invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act ("IEEPA") to impose tariffs on nearly every other country on the globe - some as low as 10 percent, others as high as 49 percent (subject to frequent, massive, spontaneous revisions). But, the Court held, the IEEPA simply doesn't work here. First, as the Court noted, that law says nothing specifically about tariffs - and no president before Trump had ever attempted to use the IEEPA to impose tariffs."
A six-Justice cross-ideological majority struck down President Donald Trump's broad global tariffs, finding the Constitution vests tariff authority primarily in Congress. The Court acknowledged that Congress may delegate tariff powers by statute but concluded the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) did not grant authority for massive tariff actions. The IEEPA lacks explicit tariff language and had never been used for tariffs before. Under the Major Questions doctrine, clear congressional authorization is required for actions of major economic or political significance. Three conservative Justices dissented, and the decision constitutes a significant legal setback for the administration.
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