GOP Senator Files Supreme Court Brief With Democrats Against Donald Trump

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Source: Newsweek

Oct 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM EDT


Senator Lisa Murkowski joined congressional Democrats on Friday in filing a brief with the Supreme Court challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs.

“When the President wishes to impose tariffs, he must comply with the existing, lawful delegations of tariff power that Congress has enacted or, if he finds those authorities insufficient, ask Congress for new authority. Here, however, the President has usurped Congress’s constitutional authority by impermissibly using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,” attorneys for the members of Congress wrote.

Why It Matters

The court has agreed to hear two cases related to Trump’s ability to authorize tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In one case, Learning Resources and hand2mind, two companies that make educational toys and products, argue that the tariffs will cost them $100 million this year. The other challenge was brought by a group of five small businesses and 12 states.

IEEPA is a 1977 law that allows the president to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat.”

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/gop-senator-files-supreme-court-brief-with-democrats-against-donald-trump-10944952

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