President Donald Trump announced that he will visit the Supreme Court next month to watch arguments in his tariffs case.
The Nov. 5 case will decide billions of dollars in trade and significantly influence the country’s trade policy.
“If we don’t have the use of tariffs, we have no national security. This country will have no financial security. … That’s why I think I’m gonna go to the Supreme Court to watch it. I’ve not done that, and I had some pretty big cases,” Trump said.
“I think it’s one of the most important cases ever brought because we will be defenseless against the world,” he added.
Trump’s visits to the Supreme Court are rare. He stepped into the high court twice for the installation of two of his confirmed justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
He held the swearing-in for Justice Amy Coney Barrett at the White House.
The case centers on Trump’s ability to issue the tariffs without congressional approval.
Trump enforced the tariffs using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, saying there was a national emergency with a need to respond to an “unusual and extraordinary threat.”
The plaintiffs argued that the act does not authorize the president to impose the tariffs, which Trump issued under the “Liberation Day” moniker.
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An appeals court stayed an injunction on the tariffs pending appeal. The federal government later petitioned the Supreme Court.
The case will determine whether one of Trump’s banner actions, his wide-ranging tariff plan, will stand.
