U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Sep. 25, 2025
When tariffs play ball the Supreme Court is umpire
The Trump Administration's unilateral imposition of tariffs, challenged in cases now before the Supreme Court, raises constitutional and statutory questions about presidential authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the "Major Questions" doctrine, highlighting tensions between Congress's delegated powers and executive action.
Allan Lee Dollison
Attorney
Law Offices of John Ye
Phone: (213) 427-2826
Email: adollison@johnyelaw.com
For my generation, if you didn't learn about tariffs in school, your first encounter with them likely came in a classic scene from Ferris Beuller's Day Off, where a teacher played by Ben Stein attempted to teach his class about them.
In one part of that clip Stein was wrong as he called a very famous and destructive tariff the "Hawley Smoot Tariff," the correct name was the $95
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