"Catastrophic. Ruinous. Country-killing. Tragic. These may sound like characterizations of Donald Trump's Presidency. They were, in fact, adjectives used in the President's brief to the Supreme Court warning of the consequences of declaring his tariffs unlawful. After months of issuing interim orders that granted most of the President's emergency requests to lift lower courts' temporary blocks on his various policies, the Court, on Wednesday morning, heard oral arguments in the case-the first on the limits of executive power in the second Trump Presidency."
"The present case involves power that Congress delegated to the President in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( IEEPA), signed by Jimmy Carter in 1977. The act permits the President to take certain actions regarding monetary transactions and property "to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat" from abroad "to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.""
Conservative Justices will weigh two conflicting impulses regarding Presidential authority in the Supreme Court's tariffs case. The President warned of catastrophic economic consequences if his tariffs are declared unlawful. The Court granted interim orders lifting lower-court blocks on many emergency measures before hearing the case. Cabinet secretaries attended oral arguments, reflecting high executive stakes. The matter rests on power delegated by Congress in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( IEEPA). The statute authorizes actions affecting transactions and property to address unusual and extraordinary foreign threats to national security, foreign policy, or the U.S. economy. The Supreme Court has previously recognized that the law grants broad emergency authority to the President.
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