Trump backtracks on attending Supreme Court tariffs case arguments

President Donald Trump, who precocious suggested helium would beryllium astatine the Supreme Court connected Wednesday for oral arguments successful the lawsuit that volition find the destiny of galore of his wide-ranging tariffs, present says helium volition not attend.

"I volition not beryllium going to the Court connected Wednesday successful that I bash not privation to distract from the value of this Decision," Trump wrote Sunday successful a Truth Social post.

"It volition be, successful my opinion, 1 of the astir important and consequential Decisions ever made by the United States Supreme Court," helium wrote.

Trump said connected Oct. 15 that if helium loses the case, "we volition beryllium a weakened, troubled, fiscal messiness for many, galore years to come.

"That's wherefore I deliberation I'm going to spell to the Supreme Court to watch," Trump said astatine the time.

If helium had gone, Trump apt would person been the archetypal sitting U.S. president to be oral arguments astatine the Supreme Court.

The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to reverse little national tribunal rulings successful 2 abstracted cases that recovered that Trump did not person the ineligible authorization to enforce alleged reciprocal tariffs connected April 2 connected imported goods from astir each state successful the world.

The tariffs scope from a baseline of 10% connected galore countries to arsenic precocious arsenic 50% connected imported goods from Brazil and India.

Also astatine involvement successful the lawsuit is the legality of abstracted "fentanyl tariffs" that Trump slapped connected immoderate imports from China, Canada, and Mexico. Trump said the tariffs connected those countries were for not stopping the travel of that deadly cause into the United States.

Trump had invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to enforce the tariffs.

On Sunday, Trump wrote, "If a President is not allowed to usage Tariffs, we volition beryllium astatine a large disadvantage against each different Countries passim the World, particularly the 'Majors.' "

"In a existent sense, we would beryllium defenseless," helium said.