Overview
- Trump, speaking at a House GOP fundraising dinner Wednesday in Washington, said Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett “sicken me” and called them “bad for our country.”
- The broadside defied Chief Justice John Roberts’ recent warning that personal attacks on judges are “dangerous.”
- The confrontation stems from the Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision on Feb. 20 in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump, which held that the emergency economic law known as IEEPA does not let a president impose sweeping tariffs on his own.
- In response to the loss of that authority, the administration invoked Section 122 of the Trade Act to add temporary global duties and launched Section 301 investigations into many countries, tools that are narrower and often time-limited without Congress.
- The ruling has triggered a refund process for duties already collected, which government lawyers had previously said would include interest, and news outlets report the total could reach roughly hundreds of billions of dollars.