The Trump administration is expected to ask the Supreme Court to immediately pause a federal ruling that is currently blocking many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
New reports say that the request could be made as early as Friday. The U.S. will seek the “emergency relief” from the highest court in the land to address the “irreparable national-security and economic harms at stake,” a filing submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said on Thursday morning.
However, the government stated this particular step will only be taken if the federal appeals court fails to put out a temporary pause of the tariff ruling in a timely manner.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched a fiery attack on the three judges who struck down the president’s “reciprocal” tariffs, saying, “The Supreme Court must put an end to this.”
She then said the judges “brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump to stop him from carrying out the mandate that the American people gave him.”
“These judges are threatening to undermine the credibility of the United States on the world stage,” Leavitt continued.
Leavitt’s rant is the latest assault from the administration against the panel residing on the U.S. Court of International Trade. On Wednesday evening, the panel delivered a massive punch to Trump’s trade agenda.
“As it seeks relief from the higher courts, the Trump administration is also asking that the trade-court judges pause any enforcement of their ruling while the case is being appealed. Later Thursday, a federal judge in a separate case in Washington, D.C., also declared that many of Trump’s tariffs are unlawful,” CNBC reported.
“We have these unelected judges who are trying to force their own will when it comes to tax policy, trade policy and all matters of the economy,” Trump advisor Jason Miller said during a Fox Business interview Thursday morning.
The three judges in question — Jane Restani, Timothy Reif, and Gary Katzmann — were appointed to the bench by two Republicans, Presidents Ronald Reagan and Trump, as well as Democrat President Barack Obama.
The administration in Thursday’s court filing ripped the panel’s ruling, saying it “rests on a dangerously flawed interpretation of the President’s tariff authority.” The court also “erred in second-guessing the President’s judgment that these tariffs are needed to address the national emergencies he declared,” the government said.
The ruling on Wednesday invalidated dozens of country-specific tariffs that had been imposed by the president earlier in the year under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Judges on the panel concluded the law does not “confer such unbounded authority” to presidents.
