The Daily Fuckup

On Sept. 3, 2025, the Trump administration filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review a ruling that had knocked out tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The filing asked the justices to decide whether IEEPA authorizes those tariffs and, if it does, whether the statute unconstitutionally hands legislative power to the president. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-250.html))

The same day, the administration also moved to expedite the case. That motion asked for faster consideration of the petition itself and, if the Court agreed to hear the case, an accelerated schedule for merits briefing and argument. The government’s filing presented the tariffs as part of a response to declared national emergencies, but that was its argument, not a finding the Court had already made. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-250.html))

The Supreme Court granted both the petition and the request to speed things up on Sept. 9, 2025. In the order, the Court consolidated the case with a related tariff appeal and put it on a compressed briefing track, with argument later set for the November 2025 sitting. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-250.html))

At bottom, the case is about how far a president can go when citing emergency powers to impose import duties, and whether Congress wrote IEEPA broadly enough to cover tariffs at all. The answer could shape the limits of tariff authority long after this dispute ends. ([supremecourt.gov](https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-250/373615/20250903200201802_Trump_v._VOS_petition-final.pdf))