President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to quickly accept and rule on his effort to overturn lower-court rulings that found most of his tariffs were not legal. Trump has made tariffs on imports from other countries the central plank of his administration’s trade policy. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Trump overstepped his presidential authority when he implemented the steep levies. U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 26, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters
President Donald Trump on Wednesday night asked the Supreme Court to quickly accept and rule on an appeal seeking to overturn lower court decisions that found most of his tariffs are illegal.
The request comes five days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in a 7-4 ruling, said that Trump overstepped his authority when he implemented the steep levies on virtually every country.
That decision threw a central pillar of Trump’s trade agenda into doubt.
Trump is asking the Supreme Court to hear arguments