Reply Brief
The following is excerpted from the Reply Brief of the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 30, 2025. Shortly after taking office, Trump determined that the nation stood at the precipice of an economic and national security crisis caused by sustained trade deficits that fostered dependency on foreign rivals and gutted American manufacturing. The president and his advisors determined that [an] “ongoing … emergency of historic proportions” has brought America to “the brink of a major economic and national security catastrophe.” Trump also declared an emergency arising from the fentanyl importation crisis that has taken hundreds…
