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The Trump administration has found itself facing friendly fire today in its trade war with the rest of the world.
The majority Republican-appointed US Supreme Court struck down the tariffs that President Trump had imposed under a 50-year-old law meant for national emergencies.
Six of the nine justices, three of them appointed by Republicans,
three of them by Democrats, ruled that the International Economic Emergency Powers Act,
or AIPA,
did not give the President the authority to impose import taxes during peacetime without consulting Congress.
The ruling takes a swipe at a policy that has been a key and frequently used tool in Donald Trump's economic and foreign policy toolboxes.
is a reminder of how the president unveiled what he called reciprocal tariffs in the White House on what he called Liberation Day last April,
as he brandished a chart listing them all sharpie at the ready.
In a few moments,
I will sign a historic executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world,
reciprocal.
That means they do it to us and we do it to them.
Very simple.
Can't get any simpler than that.
But now things have got a lot more complicated and when the president began a rare impromptu news conference in the White House briefing room in the past few hours he certainly wasn't holding back.