Trump lashes out at Supreme Court justices, saying his appointees ‘are not the people I interviewed’

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President Donald Trump upbraided Supreme Court justices as “shells” beholden to “crazed” liberal interests in a lengthy online screed a day after the court blocked his plan to execute dramatic changes to mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.

“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday.

None of the justices Trump appointed to the court during his first term — Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch or Amy Coney Barrett — noted disagreement with the majority opinion blocking the mail-voting changes.

Two justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, said they would have allowed the rules to go into place.

Trump, furious at the decision, decried a number of other rulings handed down by the court that blocked aspects of his agenda. That includes rejections of his plans to limit birthright citizenship and enact sweeping tariffs.

He said the court was “costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won’t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal.”

“It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country’s history,” he wrote. “It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court - it will likely cost me dearly for years to come - but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love!”

The Supreme Court did not respond to a request for comment on Trump’s post.

Despite Trump’s protestations, the Supreme Court has handed him significant wins, including a 2024 ruling that found presidents have broad criminal immunity for official acts.

The court also recently allowed construction to continue on Trump’s White House ballroom project after preservationists sued to have the work halted.

Still, Trump has grown disillusioned with the conservative justices he appointed that have not ruled in his favor during his second term.

“The Supreme Court has really let our Country down!” he wrote Tuesday. “Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats, and are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America.”

By comparison, he praised Alito and Thomas — the two most reliable votes for upholding his agenda — as “legends.”

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在最高法院阻止了唐纳德·特朗普总统在期中选举前对邮寄投票进行重大改革的计划后第二天，特朗普总统在网上发表了一篇长篇檄文，斥责最高法院大法官们是“空壳”，受制于“疯狂的”自由派利益。

“这些人已经不是我面试的那些美国最高法院大法官人选了，他们只是失去了原本的风采，”特朗普周二在Truth Social网站上写道。

特朗普在其第一任期内任命的最高法院大法官——布雷特·卡瓦诺、尼尔·戈萨奇和艾米·科尼·巴雷特——没有一人表示不同意阻止邮寄投票改革的多数意见。

两位大法官塞缪尔·阿利托和克拉伦斯·托马斯表示，他们会允许这些规则生效。

特朗普对这一裁决感到愤怒，并谴责法院此前作出的多项其他裁决，这些裁决阻碍了他部分政策议程的实施。其中包括驳回他限制出生公民权和实施全面关税的计划。

他说，法院“做出了令人震惊的糟糕判决，给美国造成了数万亿美元的损失，其影响之大，以至于我们的国家很难恢复或治愈。”

“最高法院将因做出我国历史上最具破坏性、最伤人、最具危害性的判决而载入史册，”他写道。“写下对美国最高法院的批评对我来说并不容易——这可能会在未来几年让我付出沉重的代价——但作为总统，我觉得为了我们所爱的美国，这是我的义务和责任！”

最高法院没有回应就特朗普的帖子发表评论的请求。

尽管特朗普极力抗议，但最高法院还是给了他重大胜利，包括2024年的一项裁决，该裁决认定总统对其官方行为享有广泛的刑事豁免权。

最近，法院还允许特朗普的白宫宴会厅项目继续施工，此前文物保护人士提起诉讼，要求停止该项目。

然而，特朗普对他任命的保守派大法官们越来越感到失望，因为这些大法官在他第二个任期内没有做出对他有利的裁决。

“最高法院真的让我们的国家失望了！”他周二写道。“某些大法官对这些疯狂堕落的民主党人感到恐惧，完全没有勇气展现出拯救我们美国所必需的勇气。”

相比之下，他称赞阿利托和托马斯——这两位最可靠的议员，他们一直支持他的议程——是“传奇人物”。