The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping use of emergency powers to impose tariffs, ruling 6-3 that such actions violated the Constitution’s grant of taxation authority to Congress. The decision exposes a major overreach of executive power and triggers politica
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