Supreme Court conservatives may not come to Trump's tariff rescue as he expects

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority may not automatically come to the rescue of President Donald Trump's tariff fight in the way he expects them to, according to reporting from Politico.

The legal challenges to Trump's worldwide tariffs have caused a whiplash effect over the past two days; on Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump exceeded his legal authority when he imposed the emergency tariffs during his "Liberation Day" announcement in April.

Then on Thursday, a federal appeals court paused that ruling, temporarily restoring the president's ability to impose the tariffs on nations from China to the European Union as he sees fit.

"If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had not stayed the ruling, the administration had said it planned to go to the Supreme Court on Friday to ask for emergency relief," The Washington Post reported.

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Despite the ruling in the Trump administration's favor, the future of Trump's tariffs remains up in the air.

If the case eventually does make it to the Supreme Court, Trump's argument -- that the emergency tariffs would "avoid the irreparable national-security and economic harms at stake" may not carry water, "even with the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court," Politico reported.

The conservative justices automatically ruling in Trump's favor would be "like saying that the Trump administration should be given a pass because it has been violating the law on such a wide scale and for so long that the resulting chaos has itself become the legal justification for the policy," the report said.

Read the Politico article here.