U.S. President Trump personally nominated three conservative judges, helping to create a conservative majority of 6 to 3 on the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, he seems to be somewhat "regretting" this decision.
According to Reuters' report on October 1st, Trump said in an interview with the American magazine Time that he regretted nominating Neil Gorsich, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coyle Barrett to the Supreme Court, because they 'always voted against me.'
Gossage, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all nominated by Trump during his first presidency. After the three entered the Supreme Court, conservative judges became the majority, occupying six seats, resulting in a 6-to-3 majority that has persisted to this day.
This interview took place at the White House on September 28th. When reporters directly asked Trump whether he regretted nominating those three people, he replied twice with "yes".
"What can I do? It was me who sent them in. They have always voted against my will." Trump complained, saying that he had given these judges "an incredibly difficult position", but they were constantly making rulings contrary to his wishes.
Trump also talked about “loyalty”. He said that the three liberal justices appointed by the Democratic president “stick together like glue”, and rarely change their positions. “Although I don’t like it, there is one thing I admire—that is loyalty.”
When the reporter asked whether he also wanted the justice nominated by himself to remain loyal, Trump immediately denied: “No, I don’t need loyalty. What I need is good judgment.”
Trump's dissatisfaction has persisted for a long time. In February this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not grant the president the authority to impose large-scale tariffs. Both Gossage and Barrett, who were nominated by Trump, agreed with the majority opinion, while Kavanaugh disagreed. Subsequently, Trump publicly attacked Gossage and Barrett.
In June this year, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-to-3 decision that Trump’s executive order restricting “birthright citizenship” violated the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution.
The most recent conflict occurred in September. The Supreme Court refused to allow the U.S. Postal Service to implement new regulations that would limit the use of postal ballots in the mid-term elections in November. Trump subsequently attacked the Supreme Court harshly on social media, claiming that the justices he interviewed back then had “already changed.”
