Most of the nine justices on the Supreme Court expressed unease Wednesday about President Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on foreign imports.

Republican-appointed justices joined their Democratic-appointed peers in hammering the administration’s representative with sharp questions about Trump invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose duties on dozens of countries .

“Congress, as a practical matter, can’t get this power back once it’s handed it over to the president,” conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch fretted during an exchange with Solicitor General John Sauer about the 1977 law.

“It’s a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected represent

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