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Trump lashes out at Barrett, Gorsuch for ruling against tariffs

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21.02.2026

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President Trump late Friday again slammed Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch — both of whom he appointed during his first term — for siding with the majority in striking down most of his sweeping tariff agenda.

In a 6-3 decision earlier Friday, Barrett and Gorsuch joined the high court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts in ruling against the president’s use of an emergency statute to execute the strategy core to his economic agenda.

“What happened today with the two United States Supreme Court Justices that I appointed against great opposition, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, whether people like it or not, never seems to happen with Democrats,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday night. “They vote against the Republicans, and never against themselves, almost every single time, no matter how good a case we have.”

It was the second time Friday that Trump lashed out at the two justices by name. During a news conference at the White House after the ruling was announced, the president said Barrett’s and Gorsuch’s decisions to rule against his administration’s tariff policies are “an embarrassment to their families.”

“I don’t want to say whether I regret nominating them. I think their decision was terrible,” Trump told reporters.

Barrett was nominated by Trump following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020. She was confirmed the following month, not long before Trump was defeated by former President Biden. Gorsuch, the president’s first Supreme Court nominee, was tapped almost a year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death and later confirmed in April 2017.

Trump also turned his ire on the chief justice in the scathing social media post.

“At least I didn’t appoint Roberts, who led the effort to allow Foreign Countries that have been ripping us off for years to continue to do so — But we won’t let it happen. The new TARIFFS, totally tested and accepted as Law, are on their way! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP,” he concluded.

When asked by The Hill at Friday’s press briefing whether the justices who ruled against the tariffs were still invited to Tuesday’s State of the Union address, Trump said “barely.”

“They are barely invited. Three of them are invited. To be honest, I could care less if they come or not,” he said.

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