URGENT: CLICK TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE LEFT!
(DC Pundit) – President Donald Trump gave three justices a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, and now he’s looking for the return desk.
In a wide-ranging interview with TIME conducted at the White House, Trump was asked directly whether he regrets nominating Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. He had recently called the trio “a shell of their original selves” in a Truth Social post.
His answer left little room for interpretation.
“Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in,” Trump said, according to TIME. “They voted against me too often. I was very—I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too.”
The president then went through the rulings that set him off. In June, the court struck down his birthright citizenship executive order in a 5-4 decision. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, and Barrett joined Roberts, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued blistering dissents. Trump said the ruling turned citizenship into “a corrupt business.”
In February, the court ruled 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not authorize Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs. Gorsuch and Barrett joined the majority, while Kavanaugh dissented. Trump says that decision will cost America hundreds of billions.
“It’s unfortunate what they did—not to me, to our country,” Trump said. “All they had to do was a little clause saying any money paid does not have to be paid back… would have saved $400 billion.”
Last month, the court blocked a Postal Service rule aimed at stopping ballots from going to ineligible voters. Only Alito and Thomas dissented. Trump wrote that “these are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,” and accused certain justices of being “petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats.”
Trump also pointed to the court’s three Democrat-appointed justices as a model of consistency. “The Democrats stick like glue — those three, they virtually never vary,” he said, referring to Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson. Say this for the left: they know how to show up for the team.
Asked whether he wants loyalty from his justices, Trump first said, “I do like loyalty, yeah.” Pressed, he added: “No, I don’t want loyalty. I want good decisions. The tariff decision was disastrous for the country. I want good decisions for the country.”
For conservatives who were told these three would anchor a 6-3 majority, it’s a sobering moment. Alito and Thomas, the two he still calls legends, are the ones who ended up writing dissents in the birthright citizenship and mail-ballot cases.
URGENT: CLICK TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE LEFT!
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