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Posted on 02/20/2026 3:45:11 PM PST by Signalman
President Donald Trump on Friday escalated his criticism of the U.S. Supreme Court following its decision to strike down most of his sweeping global tariffs, suggesting that “foreign interests” may have influenced the justices who ruled against him.
The comments came just hours after the high court, in a 6–3 ruling, determined that Trump had exceeded his authority by imposing broad import duties under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts concluded that the statute does not grant a president the power to levy tariffs, a responsibility the Constitution assigns to Congress.
During a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room, Trump reacted with visible frustration, reserving particular criticism for Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, both of whom he appointed during his first term and who joined the majority.
Calling their votes “a disgrace to our nation,” Trump said he was “absolutely ashamed” of certain members of the court. He then went a step further, hinting that outside forces may have swayed the outcome.
“You’ve mentioned multiple times foreign influence over the Supreme Court, do you have evidence of that? Will you investigate that?” a reporter asked.
“You’re going to find out!” Trump replied.
Trump also lashed out at those who backed the legal challenge to his tariff authority, referring to them as “sleaze-bags” and accusing them of siding with foreign competitors over American workers. He singled out Leonard Leo, a longtime legal activist who advised Trump on Supreme Court nominations during his first term.
Leo, through nonprofit networks he supports, helped fund the lawsuit challenging the president’s use of emergency powers to impose the tariffs. Trump described Leo as a bad person, marking a sharp break from their past alliance.
The legal challenge centered on Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose sweeping import duties on a wide range of foreign goods. The Supreme Court ruled that while the law allows a president to regulate certain economic transactions during a declared national emergency, it does not authorize the imposition of tariffs.
Despite the setback, Trump made clear that he has no intention of abandoning his trade agenda.
“We will be able to take in more money, because there’s always doubt,” Trump said.
During the briefing, he announced plans to pivot to alternative statutory authorities, including Section 122 of federal trade law, which permits temporary tariffs under certain conditions. He also signaled that his administration would initiate new Section 301 investigations into what he described as unfair trade practices by foreign nations.
The president argued that the court’s ruling would not meaningfully limit his ability to reshape U.S. trade policy, asserting that other legal pathways could provide even greater flexibility in setting tariffs.
For now, the Supreme Court’s decision stands as a significant check on presidential trade authority under emergency powers. But if Trump’s remarks are any indication, the political and legal battle over tariffs—and the forces behind them—is far from over.
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lol. He had a hissy fit and said he’d impose a global tarriff.
Yes. Plus threatening once again to pack the expanded Supreme Court with new Dems someday.
Following a Supreme Court ruling Eric Swalwell indicated that Democrats must consider expanding the Supreme Court to protect rights.
He told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi that the only way to address the direction of the Court is through electoral victory, framing it as a way to “innoculate the next generation” from actions taken by a conservative majority which some have called “fixing” the Court.
Swalwell has been a vocal critic of the current Supreme Court, often urging his party to be more aggressive in responding to conservative rulings.
——The Hill
I voted for kicking ass.
Foreign influence is ALWAYS bad!
Unless it’s Israel.
I’ll wait to see how they rule on “birth right citizenship” (I don’t hold out much hope for them to do the right thing)
"Finding out", IF TRUE, fixes NOTHING!!
ONLY ARRESTS MATTER!!
I try to keep up, but I must say I've never heard anything that sounded like that statement.
Is this a straw argument?
If any of that was true, the admin would keep on allowing scotus to rule on stuff or hear it? Countless cases would be compromised.
“Foreign influence is always bad - except when it’s Israel”
I think you meant to say, except when it’s our greatest democratic, freedom-loving ally. But then you are just spewing vitriol like a yuge tool so it’s hard to be sure.
Mike pence on X gloating over this ruling has got to be driving Trump crazy. Mike pence helped with the challenge to trumps power. The more I read about this the more I don’t know what the F is going on. The SC abided to the constitution on this ruling but then other times they don’t. We can continue to live with a court that picks and chooses. Trump needs to start ignoring the courts.
“He should just lay off this. Some you win, some you lose.”
No, you’re wrong. Trump should yell louder, and his tweets should be meaner.
Did you miss the part about foreign influence on SCOTUS?
😂
The ruling only affected the tariffs under IEEPA, and many of those were converted to negotiated trade deals, which was one of the points of the tariffs. Bessent and others say there were plans in place to roll the IEEPA tariffs into other forms of tariffs if SCROTUS ruled the way they did.
Like how many times the SCOTUS has to rule on Just Bake The Cake?
Roberts is clearly compromised.
Maybe Pres Trump has the receipts for CJ Roberts’ post 0bama”Care”, Malta brief case contents ...
You’re blocked from the subway cars unless you put 10 cents in the turnstile.
*****
Your stuff is blocked unless you put 10% in Trump’s turnstile.
*****
WIKI Congestion Pricing
in Singapore the charge is based on a pay-as-you-use principle, and rates are set based on traffic conditions at the pricing points, and reviewed on a quarterly basis. Through this policy, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) reports that the electronic road pricing “has been effective in maintaining an optimal speed range of 45 to 65 km/h for expressways and 20 to 30 km/h for arterial roads”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing
It's entirely possible that President Trumps’s very provocative posture on a lot of issues where criminal or corrupt behavior may be involved was to accomplish this exact goal.
Trump has certainly provoked some extremely harsh and desperate backlash so perhaps this has kicked loose some leads for the FBI on a wide range of issues Might not even be that hard.
People in and out of politics have become arrogant and feel that they are above the law. They have become accustomed to getting away with a lot of malicious and even criminal behavior with zero consequences.
With that kind of above the law arrogance people do stupid things and get caught
I said near the beginning that Congress should set the tariffs for trade reform and I wrote out quite a number of suggestions.
I suspect Trump doesn’t visit this site, and at best only a few members of Congress do.
I very much doubt foreign government control of any Supreme Court justice.
Trump ran into the widespread opposition to executive-set taxation based on a law that didn’t clearly support him.
Regulation by revenue imposition is a fairly new concept, mainly applied to tobacco use, but now being applied to road congestion and CO2 emissions.
“The House refuses to impeach EVEN BOASBERG!!!”
Blocking him from alien cases would only require majorities in the House and Senate.
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