Writing on his social media platform on Friday night, Donald Trump said the six justices who ruled that the tariffs he imposed under the guise of a fictional “emergency” were illegal “should be ashamed of themselves.”
Trump called their decision “ridiculous” but tried to sell his followers on the idea that the temporary import taxes he does have the power to impose, for 150 days, could be even better.
The president then accused the three justices nominated by Republican presidents who ruled that the tariffs were clearly a form of tax that only Congress has the power to impose of not being partisan enough.
Trump blamed two justices he nominated, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, and the chief justice, John Roberts for the ruling he called an “effort to allow Foreign Countries that have been ripping us off for years to continue to do so”.
All three of those justices ruled in Trump’s favor in 2024 when they decided that he had broad immunity from prosecution for having plotted to stay in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election, when his lies about mass voter fraud inspired his supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6 2021 to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
