Trump Unloads on His Own Supreme Court Picks: 'They Sicken Me'

President Donald Trump does not hide his feelings, and Wednesday night at a National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington, those feelings were aimed squarely at two justices he personally appointed to the Supreme Court. In remarks that quickly went viral, Trump blasted Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch as “bad for our country” and admitted they “sicken me” for their role in a recent ruling that blocked his tariff agenda.

The February 20th ruling struck down Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose sweeping tariffs, finding that the 1977 law does not actually authorize such measures. Six justices joined the majority, including Trump’s two picks. Only Justice Brett Kavanaugh, another Trump appointee, dissented in the president’s favor. The decision has forced the administration to rely on more cumbersome and time-limited tariff authorities.

“Bad courts in this country are costing us a tremendous amount of money,” Trump vented to the crowd. “And the Supreme Court, that’s right, of the United States cost our country — all they needed was a sentence — our country hundreds of billions of dollars, and they couldn’t care less.” The IEEPA tariffs had already generated $133 billion in revenue since their implementation, money that may now need to be refunded.

The president’s frustration is understandable from a policy perspective. His protectionist agenda was built on the flexibility that IEEPA provided, allowing customized duties on dozens of countries. Without it, he must rely on authorities like Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which imposes a 15% baseline tariff but expires after five months without congressional approval. Section 301 investigations offer four-year tariffs but require lengthy review processes.

Interestingly, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro spun the ruling as “the best possible outcome” for the administration, noting that the justices “ratified and affirmed the use of every other statute we’ve been using to implement tariffs.” Whether that assessment comforts the president remains to be seen.

The broadside comes just days after Chief Justice John Roberts lamented widespread “hostility” toward the judiciary. When a president publicly regrets his own Supreme Court appointments, what does that signal about the state of our institutions?

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Source: New York Post — “Trump seethes at 2 of his Supreme Court picks over tariff ruling: ‘They sicken me'”

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