President Donald Trump said he is raising the worldwide tariff rate from 10% to 15%, escalating his trade measures a day after the US Supreme Court struck down his earlier sweeping duties. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday, after MANY months of contemplation, by the United States Supreme Court, please let this statement serve to represent that I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been ‘ripping’ the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level.”

He added that his administration would soon determine and issue new tariffs that are legally permissible and would continue what he described as the process of “Making America Great Again - GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!”

In a separate post, Trump praised three conservative justices, writing, “My new hero is United States Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and, of course, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that they want to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

In a major setback to Trump’s pivotal economic agenda of his second term, the US Supreme Court, in a 6-3 verdict written by Chief Justice John Roberts, ruled that the tariffs imposed by Trump on nations around the world were illegal and that the President had exceeded his authority when he imposed the sweeping levies.

Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and the three liberal justices, held that the IEEPA does not explicitly authorise the president to levy duties--a power the Constitution assigns to Congress.

Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh dissented, supporting the administration's broader interpretation of emergency powers.

“The Government thus concedes, as it must, that the President enjoys no inherent authority to impose tariffs during peacetime,” Roberts wrote. “And it does not defend the challenged tariffs as an exercise of the President's warmaking powers. The United States, after all, is not at war with every nation in the world.”

Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court justices who ruled against him, calling them "fools and lapdogs”. “The Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs is deeply disappointing, and I'm ashamed of certain members of the Court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what's right for our country,” Trump said in a news conference at the White House Friday, just hours after the verdict came in.

Following the ruling, Trump had already issued a proclamation imposing a temporary 10% tariff for 150 days under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. The law allows tariffs of up to 15% for that period to address international payments problems.

Trump also said “nothing changes” in the trade deal with India in the wake of the Supreme Court verdict.

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