Trump allies say lawmakers’ failure to end IEEPA tariffs boosts court defense

Congress’s failure to pass bills that would repeal President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs or narrow the statute they are based on undermines challengers’ claims that he is improperly wielding power the Constitution reserves to the legislature, supporters of the administration told the Supreme Court in newly filed briefs. “[I]f there actually was a presidential usurpation of a power that the Congress never delegated, one would expect that Congress would, by joint resolution, terminate the state of emergency...