An angry President Trump appears to have regrets about at least two of the people he appointed to the Supreme Court during his first term, as he launched a surprising attack during what was supposed to be a motivational dinner for the GOP.
The US Supreme Court on February 20 struck down President Trump’s tariffs in a 6-3 decision.
The Court stated that Trump lacked the authority to impose the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the three leftist justices. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.
Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion, which stated in part:
It is also telling that in IEEPA’s half-century of existence, no President has invoked the statute to impose any tariffs, let alone tariffs of this magnitude and scope.
Accordingly, the President must ‘point to clear congressional authorization’ to justify his extraordinary assertion of that power. He cannot.
While speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station last night, Trump issued a blistering attack on the Court regarding the ruling.
Specifically, he pointed his finger at two people he appointed to the Court, saying “they sicken him,” and “are bad for the country.”
Though he didn’t mention them by name, Trump was almost certainly referring to Justices Barrett and Gorsuch, whom he appointed to the Court in 2017 and 2020, respectively.
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TRUMP: The Supreme Court of the United States cost OUR country hundreds of billions of dollars and they couldn’t care less.
Not that it matters, but two of the people that voted for that I appointed voted for that, and they sicken me!
They sicken because they’re bad for our country.
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