Supreme court could issue ruling on legal challenge to Trump’s tariffs today – US politics live

What the tariff legal case is aboutA Supreme Court ruling is due at 10:00 ET (15:00 GMT) but it might not be on the tariffs case – because the court does not reveal ahead of time which case rulings it is issuing.Lower courts have already ruled that the president last year overstepped his authority in imposing so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on imports from most of the US’s foreign trading partners.They sided with the case brought by tariff-hit businesses from 12 US states, that Trump didn’t have the power to use a 1977 law, meant only for emergency use, to impose such levies on individual countries.His administration has appealed against those lower court rulings in the Supreme Court.Justices heard the case in November – how they rule will be widely seen as a marker of whether they will be a curb on the president.Welcome to our US politics live blog.The Supreme Court could issue a ruling today on the legal challenge to President Trump’s global tariffs, which if upheld by the court, would upend one of the US president’s key policies and further disrupt the world economy.During hearings for the case last year, judges had appeared to question the legality of the tariffs, which Trump had imposed through a law meant for national emergencies.Meanwhile Minneapolis remains on edge one week after an ICE agent shot dead Renee Good in her car.Yesterday saw more aggressive arrests by federal officers, who have been sent in their hundreds to the city this week to both carry out Trump’s immigration deportation scheme and subdue protesters.Videos from Tuesday showed armed officers dragging one woman out of her car as she yelled she was disabled, and smashing the windows of another man’s car to seize him.