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<\/div>\nThe U.S. Supreme Court could issue at least one ruling on Friday as several major cases remain pending including litigation testing the legality of President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping global tariffs.<\/p>\n
The court may release opinions in argued cases when the justices take the bench during a scheduled sitting at 10 a.m. ET (1500 GMT), according to the court\u2019s website. The court does not announce ahead of time which rulings it intends to issue.<\/p>\n
The challenge to Trump\u2019s tariffs marks a major test of presidential powers as well as of the court\u2019s willingness to check some of the Republican president\u2019s far-reaching assertions of authority since he returned to office in January 2025. The outcome will also impact the global economy.<\/p>\n
During arguments heard by the court on November 5, conservative and liberal justices appeared to cast doubt on the legality of the tariffs, which Trump imposed by invoking a 1977 law meant for use during national emergencies. Trump\u2019s administration is appealing rulings by lower court that he overstepped his authority.<\/p>\n
Trump has said tariffs have made the United States stronger financially. In a social media post on January 2, Trump said a Supreme Court ruling against the tariffs would be a \u201cterrible blow\u201d to the United States.<\/p>\n
Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose so-called \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs on goods imported from individual countries \u2013 nearly every foreign trading partner \u2013 to address what he called a national emergency related to U.S. trade deficits. He invoked the same law to impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, citing the trafficking of the often-abused painkiller fentanyl and illicit drugs into the United States as a national emergency.<\/p>\n
The challenges to the tariffs in the cases before the Supreme Court were brought by businesses affected by the tariffs and 12 U.S. states, most of them Democratic-governed.<\/p>\n
Other important cases are also awaiting rulings at the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, including a challenge to a key section of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 federal law enacted by Congress to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Another involves a challenge on free speech grounds to a Colorado law banning psychotherapists from conducting \u201cconversion therapy\u201d that aims to change an LGBT minor\u2019s sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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