(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will ask the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to quickly take up his appeal on tariff authority after two lower courts rejected his claims of broad authority to issue import duties under a 1977 law.

"It's a very important decision and frankly, if they make the wrong decision, it will be devastation for our country," the president said from the Oval Office on Tuesday.

On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that invalidated the tariffs. Still, the court said the highest import duties in nearly a century could remain in place while the administration appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the 7-4 decision, the Federal Circuit court said tariff power rests wit

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