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President Donald Trump is not thrilled with the Supreme Court after justices — dramatically! — ruled 6-3 against his unilateral tariff authority under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act.
- “I think it’s an embarrassment to their families,” Trump said at a presser of Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, whom he had nominated but who sided with the court’s liberals.
- “They’re very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution,” he said of the justices who ruled against him. “It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement.”
Now what? Trump is still asserting tariff power, just under a different statute. He said he’ll sign a new 10% global tariff today.