""They're just being fools and lapdogs for the RINOs and the radical left Democrats," Trump said, using the apparently derisive acronym for "Republicans in name only." And that was hardly all. Trump called the three conservatives "disloyal, unpatriotic," and at one point he launched into a rant about how the court should have invalidated the election results in 2020, which Trump lost to Joe Biden."
"Writing for a hefty 6-to-3 majority, Chief Justice Roberts said that the nation's founders deliberately and explicitly placed the power to impose taxes, including tariffs, with Congress, not with the president. As the Chief Justice put it, "Having just fought a revolution motivated in large part by taxes imposed on them" by the King of England without their consent, the Framers wrote a Constitution that gives Congress the taxing power because the members of the legislature would be more accountable to the people."
President Trump publicly attacked three conservative Supreme Court justices after the Court struck down his broad tariff authority. He had previously warmly shaken Chief Justice John Roberts and thanked him for an opinion granting expansive immunity to presidents. The tariff dispute began when Trump signed an executive order in his second term authorizing wide-ranging tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners. The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, held that the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to impose taxes and tariffs. Trump labeled the justices "fools," "lapdogs," "disloyal" and "unpatriotic," and also complained the Court should have invalidated the 2020 election.
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