The US Supreme Court on Friday dealt its biggest blow against Donald Trump, ruling the president had no authority to use emergency powers to impose tariffs.
The ruling struck at a critical pillar of Trump’s presidency and marked a rare effort by the court to rein in his power after more than a year of Trump repeatedly testing the limits of his authority by implementing policies with a deluge of executive orders and by invoking rarely used laws.
America’s most powerful bench, which has been broadly sympathetic to Trump’s effort to exert executive power, had largely allowed his second term agenda to be implemented unchecked. Friday’s opinion drastically breaks this momentum.