Trump lashes out at Gorsuch and Barrett over tariff ruling, calling his own Supreme Court picks sickening

Sadie Smith – President Trump tore into two of his own Supreme Court appointees Wednesday night, telling donors at a National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser that Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett “sicken me” for siding against him in last month’s landmark tariff case. The remarks, reported by the New York Post, mark the sharpest public rebuke Trump has delivered against justices he personally elevated to the bench.

The anger stems from the Feb. 20 ruling in which Gorsuch and Barrett joined four colleagues to strike down Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose sweeping tariffs. The decision forced the White House to scramble for alternative legal authorities, and, by Trump’s telling, cost the country “hundreds of billions of dollars.” Continue reading →