Trump Lobs Extraordinary Attack At The Supreme Court Over Tariff Ruling

The president also lashed out against a federal judge who dealt a blow to the Justice Department's probe into Jerome Powell.

President Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. Supreme Court over its recent ruling striking down most of his “emergency” tariffs, while also criticizing a federal judge who quashed a subpoena brought as part of a criminal investigation into one of his frequent targets, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, on Sunday night.

“The decision that mattered most to me was TARIFFS! The Court knew where I stood, how badly I wanted this Victory for our Country, and instead decided to, potentially, give away Trillions of Dollars to Countries and Companies who have been taking advantage of the United States for decades,” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform.

Trump reserved praise for the three conservative justices who sided with him in the tariffs case — Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito — while taking aim at the remaining six members of the court.

“The Democrats on the Court always ‘stick together,’ no matter how strong a case is put before them — There is rarely even a minor ‘waver.’ But Republicans do not do this. They openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them to the highest position in the Land, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and go out of their way, with bad and wrongful rulings and intentions, to prove how ‘honest,’ ‘independent,’ and ‘legitimate’ they are,” he wrote.

Trump also couldn’t resist taking the chance to air his baseless claims of 2020 election fraud, invoking his unsuccessful attempt to get the Supreme Court to overturn Joe Biden’s victory over five years ago.