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Trump tariff ruling shows top courts serve as last line of defence against strongman rule

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par Andrea Loux Jarman, Senior Lecturer in Law, Bournemouth University

The US Supreme Court told Donald Trump on February 20 that the tariffs he has used to try and bend the world to his will are unlawful. Tariffs are taxes and it is not for the president to impose them. According to the US constitution, Congress holds the power of the purse.

Trump relied on the terms of a 1977 law designed to address national emergencies, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, to impose the majority…

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