US President Donald Trump has said that last week’s court ruling blocking most of his tariffs "was an emergency," and that the administration would seek an immediate hearing from the Supreme Court. The president said in an interview taped Tuesday morning with conservative commentator Scott Jennings that he will be “going in as an emergency” to the Supreme Court and would “probably” be seeking it Wednesday. 'Will be a disaster' He said the judges who issued the appeals court ruling last week were “a very liberal court” and said that “they don’t care about the country and “they don’t love the country.” “It will be a disaster if that is lost for our country,” Trump said of his tariffs. Trump also said that without tariffs, the country would be left defenseless against foreign trade practices. Earlier, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also said he was confident that the Supreme Court would back Trump's use of a 1977 emergency law to impose broad tariffs on countries. Court rules Trump's tariffs illegal On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled that most of Trump's tariffs imposed on countries around the world were illegal, reaffirming an earlier ruling by the Court of International Trade and saying he exceeded his authority in using emergency powers to impose them. The judges, however, allowed the tariffs to remain in place while the case moves through the appeals process. Trump's Liberation Day tariffs Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on April 2, as part of his ‘Liberation Day’, to balance the US trade deficit with other countries. While Trump has claimed that the reciprocal tariffs on each country are based on their trade deficit with the US, many experts have questioned the logic behind the calculation.
