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Will Trump get to keep his tariffs? US Supreme Court agrees to review his levies

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    50% Medium Right

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : While earlier presidents mainly employed the law to impose sanctions, Trump is the first to wield it to set broad tariffs of 10 to 50 per cent.
48% : Trump himself described the case as a "very, very big" one before the Supreme Court, insisting that defeat could inflict severe economic damage, whereas victory could make the country "unbelievably rich again." Although the conservative-leaning Court has frequently granted Trump's emergency applications, this will be the first time the justices directly assess the legal foundation of one of his central economic policies.
45% : Trump's legal team last week urged the Supreme Court to intervene immediately, warning that the appeals court ruling risked unravelling trade negotiations.
43% : File image/AFP As the US Supreme Court emerges as the key hurdle for Trump in enforcing his tariffs, the central question now is whether the country's highest court will allow them to stand.
42% : " Under the Constitution, the power to tax rests with Congress.
40% : Just last month, Trump invoked the emergency powers to tax imports from around 90 countries, having previously used them to levy tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico.
34% : Meanwhile, on Tuesday evening, a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump from removing Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, allowing her to remain in post while she contests her dismissal.
24% : In a 7-4 decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that Trump had unlawfully relied on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose heavy duties on major trading partners.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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