HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — President Donald Trump called some conservative Supreme Court justices “weak, stupid, and bad” on Wednesday.
He attacked the bench’s decision on his tariffs, which it ruled were illegally imposed, and criticized the court’s potential ruling against his birthright citizenship policies in a lengthy social media post.
The tariff cancelation by the justices, two of which were nominated by Trump, will allow businesses to apply for refunds of the $166 billion in revenue collected through the taxes. Conservative justices also appeared skeptical last month about the president’s reinterpretation of birthright citizenship.
“The Republican Justices don’t stick together, they give the Democrats win after win, like a 159 Billion Dollar pile of cash on a completely ridiculous Tariff decision, and nasty, one sided questions on the country destroying subject of Birthright Citizenship, something which virtually NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS STUPID ENOUGH TO ALLOW,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, although most of the Western Hemisphere grants citizenship at birth.
“No, certain ‘Republican’ Justices have just gone weak, stupid, and bad, completely violating what they ‘supposedly’ stood for,” the president added.
The National News Desk requested comment from the Supreme Court but hasn’t received a response.
Trump has assailed the justices since they invalidated his tariffs in February. The court had mostly allowed the president’s policies to stay in effect while district and appellate judges considered challenges, and he reportedly acknowledged in January that he was kissing up to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
“I had the nastiest, most vicious joke about John Roberts,” Trump said, according to The Washington Post. “If you think I’m going to tell that joke you can forget it.”
Roberts has called for an end to personal attacks against judges, although he has stopped short of naming the president. The chief justice said during a Rice University forum in Texas last month that “personally directed hostility” was dangerous and needed to stop.
“The problem sometimes is that the criticism can move from a focus on legal analysis to personalities, and you see from all over, not just any one political perspective on it, that it’s more directed in a personal way, and that, frankly, can be actually quite dangerous,” Roberts said.
The Supreme Court will rule on birthright citizenship and several other controversial cases over the next few months. Justices heard arguments in January about Trump’s attempted firing of a Federal Reserve governor and are considering whether to uphold state laws that ban transgender athletes from competing in female sports.
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