Anthony Zurcher
Donald Trump had been warning for months that a Supreme Court decision like this would be catastrophic.
If the court curtailed his ability to impose these tariffs, he had said, it would be an "economic and national security disaster".
A six-justice majority of the Supreme Court, in ruling against the president on Friday, didn't care much about his concerns.
Congress, not the president, has the power to impose tariffs, the justices ruled. And nothing in the law that the president based his tariffs on, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, delegated such sweeping powers to Trump.
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