‘A Disgrace to Our Nation’: Trump Delivers Blistering Attack on Supreme Court After Tariff Ruling

 https://time.com/7380123/donald-trump-supreme-court-tariffs-press-conference/

Hours after the Supreme Court struck down a cornerstone of his economic policy, President Donald Trump personally attacked Supreme Court justices who ruled against his claim that emergency powers gave him sole authority to impose tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Trump singled out Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, who he appointed in his first term and joined with the majority, as “a disgrace to our nation.”

In the 6-to-3 decision released Friday morning, the court found that Trump had overstepped Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, which enumerates some of the powers granted to Congress. ”The Framers gave ‘Congress alone’ the power to impose tariffs during peacetime,” the Court’s majority opinion stated.

Over a sprawling press conference in which he veered from complaining about the ruling to downplaying its impact, Trump lambasted the justices and questioned their motivations. He repeatedly stated without evidence that the Supreme Court had been influenced by "foreign interests.” He said that Barrett and Gorsuch were “just being fools and lap dogs for the RINOs and the radical left Democrats,”—using an acronym for “Republicans in name only’—and called them “very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution.”