President Donald Trump gestures at the end of his speech after touring the Coosa Steel Corporation factory in Rome, Georgia, Feb. 19, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)
Some of the Supreme Court's nine justices will likely be sitting in the audience when the president delivers the State of the Union address on Tuesday.
In the opinion, the high court declared, "Our task today is to decide only whether the power to ‘regulate… importation,’ as granted to the President in IEEPA, embraces the power to impose tariffs. It does not."
Trump has made tariffs a key plank of his economic agenda since retaking the Oval Office last year, but his policies have not come without controversy.
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to reporters as he returns to his office at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 10, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., also hailed the decision.
"The Constitution’s checks and balances still work. Article One gives tariff authority to Congress. This was a common-sense and straightforward ruling by the Supreme Court. I feel vindicated as I’ve been saying this for the last 12 months. In the future, Congress should defend its own authorities and not rely on the Supreme Court. Besides the Constitutional concerns I had on the Administration’s broad-based tariffs, I also do not think tariffs are smart economic policy. Broad-based tariffs are bad economics," Bacon wrote in a post on X.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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