Donald
Trump
continued
his
temper
tantrum
against
the
Supreme
Court’s
tariff
decision,
taking
an
opportunity
last
night
to
specifically
call
out
two
of
his
appointees
for
joining
the
majority.
“Two
of
the
people
that
voted
for
that,
I
appointed,”
Trump
slurred
during
his
speech
to
the
National
Republican
Congressional
Committee dinner,
“And
they
sicken
me…
They
sicken
me
because
they’re
bad
for
our
country.”
As
a
reminder,
this
is
the
second
time
for
Amy
Coney
Barrett,
who
literally
sickened
Trump
when
her
nomination
party
turned
into
a
COVID
superspreader
event
that
sent
Trump
to
the
hospital.
It’s
true
that
tariffs
had
provided
the
government
billions
in
revenue,
because
that’s
how
massive
tax
increases
work.
What
Trump
never
seemed
to
figure
out
is
that
those
costs
aren’t
paid
by
other
countries,
but
by
importers
who
then
pass
it
on
down
the
chain
to
the
consumer
in
higher
prices.
Tariffs
can
punish
other
countries
for
their
trade
practices
if
the
price
increase
on
imported
goods
causes
consumers
to
shift
to
domestic
products,
but
since
the
administration
didn’t
realize
America
can’t
grow
bananas
for
almost
a
year,
it’s
safe
to
say
these
rocket
scientists
weren’t
carefully
crafting
a
strategy
to
protect
homegrown
products.
For
Gorsuch
and
Barrett
(to
a
slightly
lesser
extent
since
she
did
not
join
the
most
expansive
part
of
the
Trump
immunity
opinion),
they
join
Chief
Justice
Roberts
in
learning
that,
no
matter
how
much
you
debase
yourself
to
rewrite
the
rule
of
law
to
help
this
guy,
it’s
never
enough.
These
justices
went
full
Nicholas
Cage
to
find
language
in
some
hidden
version
of
the
Constitution
to
totally
immunize
a
president
for
stealing
classified
documents
—
apparently
for
the
purpose
of
helping
your
private
business
interests
—
and
having
your
lawyer
lie
to
the
government
about
that
fact,
participating
in
a
scheme
to
defraud
voters,
and
even
assassinate
political
rivals.
But
they
were
still
one
decision
away
from
him
deciding
that
they
“sicken”
him.
And,
hey,
the
Supreme
Court
sickens
me
too.
The
difference
is
Above
the
Law
readers
are
highly
intelligent,
beautiful
people,
and
Trump’s
audience
are
the
people
who
tried
to
hang
Mike
Pence
and
then
received
pardons
for
it.
The
phrase
hits
a
little
different
for
those
folks.
It’s
the
“will
no
one
rid
me
of
these
troublesome
judges?”
drumbeat
his
administration
has
lobbed
at
lower
court
judges
for
months,
finally
leveled
up
to
the
Supreme
Court.
But
they
have
no
one
to
blame
but
themselves.
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