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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Supreme Court rules against Trump's tariffs

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:30.5

The Supreme Court has struck down Trump's tariffs. The Supreme Court ruled six to three that the Trump sweeping tariffs imposed

0:39.8

under the 1977 emergency powers law were unconstitutional because the law doesn't

0:46.1

authorize the president to levy broad import taxes. You've got Chief Justice John Roberts,

0:52.6

who wrote the only, he wrote that only Congress has the power to impose taxes and tariffs and that the emergency power statute Trump used don't explicitly allow tariffs.

1:05.3

Now, this ruling doesn't ban all tariffs, and you've got to imagine that Trump's team is going to try some legal avenues,

1:12.4

of course.

1:13.3

Maneuvers to try to keep these tariffs in place. But the broad use of emergency powers were

1:19.3

rejected. Yeah. And so it was a six to three ruling. And so the dissenters were who you

1:24.7

would expect. It was Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh. So that means that

1:28.6

Justice Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett and Gorsuch went with the liberal justices on this move here.

1:35.8

Look, it was always a stretch when Donald Trump tried to invoke this 1977, you know,

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