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TRUMP COULD ASK SUPREME COURT TO HALT TARIFF BLOCK AS SOON AS FRIDAY

The Trump administration said it may ask the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as Friday to immediately pause a federal court ruling blocking many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The U.S. will seek the “emergency relief” from the nation’s highest court “to avoid the irreparable national-security and economic harms at stake,” it said in a filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday morning.

But the government said it will only take that step if the federal appeals court does not quickly issue at least a temporary pause of the tariff ruling.

“The Supreme Court must put an end to this,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday afternoon in a blistering attack on the three judges who struck down Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs and other duties.

The judges “brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump to stop him from carrying out