Today, the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard oral arguments in a landmark case challenging the federal government’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs. Minnesota and a coalition of 11 other states filed the lawsuit, which tests whether the President exceeded his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

"My job as Attorney General is to help Minnesotans afford their lives, and President Trump’s unlawful tariffs are making that harder for countless Minnesotans by raising prices on everything from food to clothing to cars and so much more. That’s why I challenged Trump’s unlawful and harmful tariffs in court, and why today our coalition argued our case in front of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court was rightly skeptical of the President’s extraordinary assertion of an unreviewable power to impose tariffs on any country, for any length of time, in any amount, simply by declaring an ‘emergency.’ Most of the justices on the Supreme Court expressed serious concern about the President’s claimed power to tariff the entire world, without any grant of that power from Congress, and I am cautiously optimistic that the Court will hold the President’s extraordinary tariffs unlawful.”