Donald Trump is desperately hoping the Supreme Court will swoop in and salvage his sweeping tariff plans by overturning a previous ruling that declared most of them illegal.

The Trump administration filed a petition on Wednesday asking the nation’s highest court to intervene in a lower federal appeals court ruling that found the president had overstepped his authority when he cited a 1977 law designed to address threats amid a national emergency to justify his reciprocal tariffs.

The request sets up a potentially explosive showdown between Trump and the Supreme Court—which includes three conservative justices he appointed to the bench— as the decisions will see if Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs will move forward or see the president suffer a humiliating defeat.

The outcome will also h

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