Trump attacks Supreme Court justices after he is handed a major tariff loss (www.politico.com)

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President Donald Trump admonished justices who struck down sweeping tariffs on Friday, accusing the six members of the Supreme Court of being “afraid of doing the right thing.”

The president said at a press conference hours after the court’s ruling that he’s “ashamed” for the justices who voted against his tariffs, singling out the liberal justices who joined three conservatives in blocking the tariffs as a “disgrace to our nation.”

“The Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs is deeply disappointing, and I’m ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed, for not having the courage to do what’s right for our country,” he said.

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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

There's already a lot of MAGA people convinced that "activist judges" are acting against Trump just to act against Trump... You know, as opposed to ruling against him because he's breaking the law.

Nevermind all those other SCOTUS rulings handing the executive branch more power. Those don't matter. Clearly now it's stacked with activist judges.

I wonder if anyone from MAGA could actually define what "checks and balances" or "separation of powers" means.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The answer is no. Unless there is some mythical honest MAGA they are hiding from us. It is not that they can't properly define things it is they don't want to.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder if anyone from MAGA could actually define what "checks and balances" or "separation of powers" means.

I guarantee both would lack self-awareness and instead be defined with a generous sprinkling of "woke", "antifa", or "liberal" in the definition.

Maybe:

"Checks and balances make it so a woke liberal president can't take away our freedom by himself."

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sorry, the correct answer is "checks and balances are some lib pussy bullshit they say when they want to put litterboxes in classrooms for furries"

But we would have also accepted "fuck you here's my freedom card to not care (slams a beer while flipping you off)"

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The amazing thing about this decision by the supreme court is not that it ran against him, but that there still were three judges who ignored the state of law in the US.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yup.

I can't really feel good about this news because it just shows that the SC is still notably corrupt.

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Shut the fuck up Donnie, you're out of your element.

[-] deHaga@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

You shit your pants again Donnie?

[-] aarch0x40@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

He best watch himself. The Supreme Court may just suddenly find that presidents can be held accountable for crimes during their tenure.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Don't get too excited, they decided on money. Trump is wrong about his stupid tariff scheme. Not only was it always illegal it is simply not generating the money they pretended it would. With the tax cuts and increases in spending we are heading to add another ten trillion to the debt in the next three years. Possibly much more if we go to war with Iran.

It is obvious Trump and the Republicans are trying to break the bank at this point. They are purposely mismanaging the publics money to create a crisis. I had to listen to years of hate radio growing up and I know this is their "starve the beast" moment aka destroy the government.

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