President Trump looked a magazine interviewer in the eye and said the quiet part out loud. He regrets Neil Gorsuch. He regrets Brett Kavanaugh. He regrets Amy Coney Barrett. All three. The men and the woman who gave him a 6-3 Court, ended Roe, and recognized presidential immunity for official acts are, in his telling this week, a bad hire.
Breitbart reported the exchange from a TIME interview published October 1. Asked flat whether he regretted the nominations, Trump did not dodge.
Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in. They voted against me too often. I was very — I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too.
Then he looked across the bench at Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson and found something to admire. The New York Post has the line. Democrats, he said, “stick like glue.” You can hand them “the worst thing in the world and they’ll vote as a group.” He called that loyalty. Loyalty to Barack Hussein Obama. Loyalty to Biden, “even though Biden doesn’t even know who the hell they are.”
A beat later he walked it back. “No, I don’t want loyalty. I want good decisions.” Both sentences are in the transcript. Believe the second one. The first one is what he actually feels.
Three losses that actually cost something
The anger is not imaginary. It is attached to three cases that did real damage.
In February the Court ruled 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not hand a president a blank check to impose global tariffs. Gorsuch and Barrett joined the majority. Kavanaugh dissented. Trump told TIME the tariff decision was disastrous for the country, and that a short clause saying money already collected did not have to be paid back “would have saved $400 billion.”
They chose not to write it. The Post put the refund exposure to businesses at more than $100 billion. Either number is a wound.
In June the Court struck down his order limiting birthright citizenship for children born here to parents who are not citizens or permanent residents. Barrett was with the majority that killed the order. Kavanaugh split the difference, concurring in part and dissenting in part. Trump did not treat it as a personal slight. He called it a loss for the country, and he was right about the industry that grew up around the clause.
Birthright citizenship. It’s becoming a major industry now. People are making millions and millions of dollars, and we’re losing trillions of dollars. And it’s become a corrupt business, all because of the Supreme Court decision. That decision was for the babies of slaves. It wasn’t for Chinese people, wealthy or unwealthy, coming, you know, pouring into our country.
Then September. The Court refused to let a Postal Service rule on mail ballots take effect before the midterms. Alito and Thomas wanted the stay. Kavanaugh wrote that the government had a fair prospect on the statute and still called the 2026 rollout arbitrary.
Trump went to Truth Social around September 15 and said the three were “merely a shell of their original selves,” a Court costing the country trillions with rulings “of such magnitude that it won’t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal.” RedState noted that the TIME question was built on that post.
Mail-in ballots. Birth tourism dressed up as a constitutional right. A tariff statute read so tightly that collected duties may have to be mailed back. A president who campaigned on all three has a right to be furious at the outcomes.
Loyalty is the wrong word
Fury at the outcomes is not the same thing as a claim on the judges. Scripture already settled that argument. “Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s.”
A justice who trims a case because the man who nominated him is watching has already failed the office.
The liberal trio does not vote together because they owe Obama a favor. They vote together because they share a theory of the Constitution in which the text is a suggestion and the policy goal is the law. That is not loyalty. That is a faction. Admiring the glue is like admiring a crew that always votes to sink the ship. They are reliable. They are reliably wrong.
Trump’s own clarification is the better standard. Good decisions, not retention bonuses. On the tariffs, a justice can believe IEEPA was written for sanctions and emergencies, not for a permanent global tariff schedule, and still think Congress should have fixed the refund mess in a statute.
On birthright, the original public meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment was about the children of slaves and of people subject to the full jurisdiction of the United States, not a reward for illegal entry. Getting that case wrong is not independence. It is a misreading with a price tag. On mail ballots, declining to disturb an election calendar is a habit this Court has, and it keeps handing the same broken system another cycle.
Matt Margolis at PJ Media is right that a president who tallies the Court like a whip count will always end up disappointed. George W. Bush got John Roberts and watched him save Obamacare. Dwight Eisenhower got Earl Warren. The difference is what these three already did. All three were in the majority in Dobbs, which returned abortion to the states and buried Roe.
They were in the majority in Trump v. United States, which recognized immunity for official acts and kept the lawfare machine from treating every presidential decision as a crime. Those are not shells. Those are the reasons the seats were worth the confirmations, the Kavanaugh circus included.
Life tenure is the design. A president nominates. The Senate consents. After that the commission outlasts the man who signed it. Trump cannot fire them, and he knows it. “What can I do? I put them in.” That shrug is more constitutional than the loyalty talk that came before it.
He has not even been consistent about the grudge. The Post reported that hard feelings did not stop him from handing four of 134 tickets to the September 24 state dinner with China to Barrett, Kavanaugh, and their spouses. You can call someone a shell of the person you interviewed and still want them at the table when Beijing is in the room.
Regret the bad opinions. Fight the next case. Ask the next nominee, in public, what “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” meant in 1868, and what a statute has to say before a president may tax the world. Do not ask for a vote. The country does not need another bloc. It needs a Court that can read.
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