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Trump Criticizes Supreme Court in Truth Social Post

Published 22 April 2026

President Donald Trump criticized the Supreme Court in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, accusing its three liberal justices of consistently voting as a unified bloc while faulting the conservative majority for failing to do the same. The remarks came amid the court's recent rejection of his tariff policy and ahead of a pending decision on his executive order challenging birthright citizenship.

In the post, Trump questioned why Democrats would seek to expand the court, writing, "How can the Democrats not like how the U.S. Supreme Court votes. The Democrat Justices stick together like glue, NEVER failing to wander from the warped and criminal policies, ideas, and cases put before them. They ALWAYS vote as a group, or BLOCK, even that new, Low IQ person, that somehow found her way to the bench Sleepy Joe!" He specifically targeted Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court's most recent appointee and its only Black female member, in the reference to President Joe Biden.

Trump contrasted the liberals with the court's Republican-appointed justices, claiming, "The Republican Justices dont stick together, they give the Democrats win after win, like a 159 Billion Dollar pile of cash...

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