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Trump says Gorsuch, Barrett decisions to rule against tariffs ’embarrassment to their families’
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize sweeping tariffs, prompting Trump to impose a new 10% global tariff under the Trade Act of 1974.
- Trump said Justices Gorsuch and Barrett's decisions to rule against his tariffs were an "embarrassment to their families" and called them "fools and lapdogs" for siding with the court majority.
- The Supreme Court ruled 6-3, with Chief Justice Roberts writing that "the president went too far" in unilaterally setting tariffs, as taxation power belongs to Congress.
- Trump expressed disappointment with the ruling, saying "the court has been swayed by foreign interests" and that he had "powerful alternatives" despite the decision being "incorrect.
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Furious Trump says tariff‑ruling justices are ‘barely’ invited to State of the Union
The 6-3 ruling was "an embarrassment to their families, if you want to know the truth,' President Donald Trump fumed Friday of two of his U.S. Supreme Court appointees who struck down his tariff regime.
Trump says there are alternatives to the Supreme Court's decision to reject most of the import tariffs and promises a new tariff within three days. Still, Sporting and Benfia enter the field today.
Trump says he is ashamed of Supreme Court tariff ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday, February 20, that most of President Trump's global tariffs were illegal. The court said the levies he imposed on global trading partners were not authorized under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
The separation of powers is further strained now that President Donald Trump is facing opposition from conservative judges he himself has appointed. Those who reject his tariffs are "unpatriotic and disloyal."
Jennings: I’d have told Trump not to respond to SCOTUS ruling
After President Trump lashed out at Supreme Court justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch for siding with the liberal justices to torpedo his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, the NewsNight panel debates why Trump couldn’t hold back his frustration and what they would have advised him to do instead.
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