{"id":66844,"date":"2026-02-20T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/trump-illegally-used-executive-power-to-impose-global-tariffs-supreme-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:55:05","slug":"trump-illegally-used-executive-power-to-impose-global-tariffs-supreme-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/trump-illegally-used-executive-power-to-impose-global-tariffs-supreme-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump illegally used executive power to impose global tariffs, supreme court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling is blow to Trump\u2019s bold assertions of authority and topples key pillar of aggressive economic agenda<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/20\/us-iran-nuclear-deal-trump-agreement-strikes-latest-news-live-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">US supreme court<\/a> declared many of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> tariffs illegal on Friday, in a sharp rebuke that topples a key pillar of the president\u2019s aggressive economic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>In a 6-3 ruling, the court decided that a 1977 law designed to address national emergencies did not provide the legal justification for most of the Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tariffs<\/a> on countries across the world. It is the first time the court has overruled one of Trump\u2019s second-term policies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/trump-supreme-court-tariffs-ruling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling is blow to Trump\u2019s bold assertions of authority and topples key pillar of aggressive economic agenda US politics live \u2013 latest updates The US supreme court declared many of Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs illegal on Friday, in a sharp rebuke that topples a key pillar of the president\u2019s aggressive economic agenda. In a 6-3 ruling, &#8230; <a title=\"Trump illegally used executive power to impose global tariffs, supreme court rules\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/trump-illegally-used-executive-power-to-impose-global-tariffs-supreme-court-rules\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump illegally used executive power to impose global tariffs, supreme court rules\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}