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 Conservative and liberal justices on the Supreme Court had tough questions for the Trump administration as the court considered whether President Donald Trump can impose sweeping tariffs on nearly every good imported to the U.S.

During the court’s first major test of Trump’s expansive view of presidential powers, Chief Justice John Roberts and others probed whether Trump has claimed more power than presidents have been given under either federal law or the Constitution.


Tariffs, Roberts said, are a tax on Americans.

“And that has always been the core power of Congress,” he said.