The Supreme Court on Friday refused two small businesses’ request to announce before the court’s upcoming summer recess if it will take up their challenge to President Trump’s emergency tariffs.
Stressing the tariffs’ sweeping impacts on the economy, the businesses are asking the justices to take up their challenge now rather than let it proceed through the lower courts in normal course.
The justices have yet to decide whether they will do so. But in a brief order Friday, they refused the businesses’ additional ask to expedite consideration so an announcement can be made before the summer recess, now just days away.
That demand for speed was aimed at having the Supreme Court hear oral arguments as soon as September in the case, which concerns whether Trump can invoke an emergency law to justify his “reciprocal” tariffs and others imposed on China, Canada and Mexico.