DOJ signals Supreme Court appeal over Trump tariffs block

Published May 29, 2025 2:06pm ET



The Trump administration signaled Thursday that it may ask the Supreme Court as soon as Friday to step in and revive a sweeping tariffs policy blocked by the U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday evening.

In a court filing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, government attorneys said they would seek “emergency relief” from the high court “to avoid the irreparable national security and economic harms at stake,” but only if the appeals court doesn’t move quickly to pause enforcement of the ruling.

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