“I’m ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed, for not having the courage to do what’s right for our country,” Trump said in the White House briefing room, after two justices he nominated — Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch — voted against his signature trade policies.
“They’re very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution. It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think.”
Trump said that the three Democrat-nominated justices — Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor — on the court were automatically against his policies and “they also are frankly a disgrace to our nation, those justices.”
The president said it’s possible that justices were “being politically correct, which has happened before, far too often with certain members of this court.”
