WASHINGTON, D.C. — Are U.S. President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs legal? We’re about to find out.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments in two cases that will determine whether the president was within his constitutional rights to impose tariffs on countries around the globe — or whether it was executive overreach. Everyone who has been affected by the tariffs, from world leaders to small business owners, was watching to see what the justices asked the legal teams for both sides.

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