Tag Supreme Court

Defence and Intelligence, Economic Security, EU Law, Geopolitics, Uncategorised

Who Has the Power to Impose Tariffs in the United States?

Congress, the President, and the changing constitutional law of U.S. trade policy It is easy, in the current tariff debate, to take for granted precisely what needs clarifying: who actually has the constitutional authority to impose tariffs in the United…

Antonino Alì
22 September 2026

Economic Security, Geopolitics, Uncategorised

Emergency tariffs and constitutional boundaries: the Supreme Court’s IEEPA decision

The Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (607 U.S. (2026)) confronts a question that is at once technical and deeply structural: can an emergency economic statute be read to authorize the President to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from…

Antonino Alì
20 February 2026