Earlier this month, two toy companies asked America's highest judicial body to fast-track their legal challenge of tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on goods made in China.

Yet in a major victory for the White House, the Supreme Court announced late last week that it had denied their request. 

White House spokesperson welcomes Friday decision

According to Newsweek, the Supreme Court's decision was welcomed in a statement released on Friday by White House spokesperson Kush Desai.

"The Trump administration is legally using the powers granted to the executive branch by the Constitution and Congress to address our country's national emergencies of persistent goods trade deficits and drug trafficking," Desai was quoted as saying.

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to fast-track a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's tariffs. https://t.co/KGLGjLIKFZ

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 20, 2025

"If the Supreme Court decides to hear this unfounded legal challenge, we look forward to ultimately prevailing," the spokesperson went on to add.

Case concerns the International Emergency Economic Powers Act

As NBC News explained, the two companies in question are Learning Resources and hand2mind, and they challenged Trump's authority to tariff Chinese goods under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)

Signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, the law which allows a president to regulate commercial interactions between the United States and other nations after a state of emergency has been declared.

However, the plaintiffs contend that no such state of emergency exists and the IEEPA does not permit Trump to  "unilaterally reshape the national economy and global trade policy."

While a federal district court judge initially ruled in their favor, an appeals court later put that judgment on hold while the matter is being litigated.

"Even as these punishing tariffs cause American businesses and consumers to bleed billions of dollars each month, there will be no relief any time soon," the toy companies said in their petition to the Supreme Court.

Ruling against tariffs in separate case has also been stayed

Newsweek also noted that the U.S. Court of International Trade had earlier ruled against Trump's tariffs in a separate case but Fox Business reported that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit temporarily stayed the decision.

Trump tariffs face legal battle as federal appeals court temporarily blocks trade ruling https://t.co/C4xe0JYVWg

— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) May 29, 2025

Desai told Fox Business that the appeals court decision was "a positive development for America’s industries and workers."