Supreme Court sets emergency Feb. 20 session to rule on tariff authority

The Supreme Court announced on February 13, 2026, that it would convene an emergency decision day on February 20 — an extraordinary break from its normal schedule — to rule on whether President Trump had authority to impose sweeping tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The expedited timeline reflected lower court injunctions blocking tariff collection that threatened to disrupt federal revenue collection and ongoing trade negotiations. No emergency Supreme Court session had been called on such short notice in recent decades.