President Donald Trump continued his tirade against the Supreme Court's recent decision limiting his tariff authority, publicly questioning Friday whether the case could be reheard.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump argued the ruling could result in massive amounts of money being returned to foreign countries and companies and suggested the justices could revisit the case.
"The recent Decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning TARIFFS could allow for Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to be returned to Countries and Companies that have been 'ripping off' the United States of America for many years, and now, according to this Decision, could actually continue to do so, at an even increased level," Trump wrote.
"I am sure that the Supreme Court did not have this in mind! It doesn't make sense that Countries and Companies that took advantage of us for decades, receiving Billions and Billions of Dollars that they should not have been allowed to receive, would now be entitled to an undeserved 'windfall,' the likes of which the World has never seen before, as a result of this highly disappointing, to say the least, ruling. Is a Rehearing or Readjudication of this case possible???"
In a 6-3 decision last week, the justices ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize a president to impose broad-based tariffs, marking a major rebuke of Trump's use of emergency powers to reshape U.S. trade policy.
The ruling affirmed a lower-court decision striking down the tariffs and vacated a separate district court ruling for lack of jurisdiction. Trump has defended tariffs as central to his economic agenda.
The ruling invalidated tariffs imposed under IEEPA but did not address the mechanics of unwinding them, leaving those issues to be litigated in lower courts and through administrative processes.
The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Wharton Budget Model estimated that reversing the IEEPA tariffs could generate up to $175 billion in refunds.
Separately, the Congressional Budget Office has projected total U.S. tariff revenue of about $300 billion annually over the next decade.
Refund claims, if successful, would be paid to importers that remitted the duties to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They would not automatically flow to foreign governments.
Trump's central question was whether a "Rehearing or Readjudication" of the case is possible.
Under Supreme Court Rule 44, a party can file a petition for rehearing within 25 days of a decision.
Such petitions are rarely granted. The court's own rules state that rehearing is limited to "intervening circumstances of a substantial or controlling effect or to other substantial grounds not previously presented."
Historically, the Supreme Court grants rehearing in a small fraction of cases, typically when there is a significant procedural or factual issue that was overlooked.
A separate path would involve Congress passing legislation that explicitly authorizes the president to impose tariffs under defined emergency conditions.
Such a statute could be tested in future litigation and potentially return to the courts under a different legal framework.
The administration has not publicly detailed whether it intends to seek a rehearing.
Newsmax reached out to the White House for comment.
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