Sept. 4 (UPI) -- President Trump launched a bid in the Supreme Court to overturn the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that most of his tariffs were unlawful.
Officials filed a petition late Wednesday, asking justices for an expedited ruling that the president does have the power to tax imports from the United States' trading partners after the lower court found he had exceeded his authority and that duties and taxes were a power reserved to Congress under the Constitution.
The administration requested the Supreme Court hear his appeal in early November and make a final judgment as soon as possible, instead of the nine months such decisions usually take.
Solicitor General John Sauer's petition argued that the "erroneous decision has disrupted highly impactful, sensitive, ongoing diplomatic trade negotiations, and cast a pall of legal uncertainty over the president's efforts to protect our country by preventing an unprecedented economic and foreign policy crisis."
With the legal challenge from small U.S. importers and some states against Trump's tariffs threatening to rip the heart out of his economic and foreign policy and compel the repayment of tariffs collected so far, Sauer said the "stakes could not be higher."
