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Trump seethes at Supreme Court for 'negative rulings' in blistering rant
President Donald Trump was furious with the Supreme Court on Wednesday, unleashing accusations against the justices.Trump wrote his rant on his Truth Social platform and included several claims."Does anybody have any idea how much Money and Prestige the United States Supreme Court has cost our Nation with their negative Rulings on Birthright Citizenship and TARIFFS? The answer, TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS!" Trump wrote.Trump's attorneys have asked the Supreme Court to overturn the $83.3 million defamation loss to E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who accused him of sexual assault. Trump has denied Carroll's claim that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, but he lost Carroll's defamation suit and an appeal in federal court.Trump has faced multiple losses against the high court.The Supreme Court has pushed back on two parts of Trump's policy agenda: birthright citizenship and tariffs. In February, the high court ruled 6–3 in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize the President to impose tariffs, striking down the sweeping global tariffs he had imposed under that law. And in June, the Court ruled 6–3 in Trump v. Barbara. The justices determined that Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship "cannot be reconciled with the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which confers citizenship on anyone 'born … in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.'" It upheld automatic citizenship for children born on U.S. soil regardless of their parents' immigration status.
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Restrictions on Mail-In Ballots Before Midterms
The President has pushed to remake U.S. elections ahead of the November midterms, where Republican control of Congress is at stake.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn $83.3 million award in E. Jean Carroll defamation case
Lawyers for President Donald Trump argued that he had immunity for statements made while president.
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $83.3 Million Award in Carroll Defamation Case
President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.
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Deadline Passes For Trump To Ask Supreme Court To Reconsider Birthright Citizenship Ruling
Trump vowed to seek a rehearing after the Supreme Court handed him a loss in June.
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Supreme Court joins Trump, Congress in job approval slump
The Supreme Court's approval rating — long the highest among the three branches of government — has sunk to a record low, joining President Trump and Congress in drawing low public support.Why it matters: Americans aren't just unhappy with individual leaders. They're increasingly convinced the country's biggest institutions aren't working for them.By the numbers: 33% of Americans approve of the Supreme Court's performance, according to a Gallup survey of 1,200 adults conducted from July 1-19 — days after the justices wrapped their latest term.That's down 6 percentage points from 2025, the court's previous low.Trump's approval rating stands at 34%, the lowest of either of his terms in office, a The Economist / YouGov poll found.About 13.5% of Americans approve of Congress' performance, down from 23.2% in July 2025, per YouGov data.Yes, but: When YouGov asked Americans about their own congressional representatives, more (33%) had a favorable opinion than an unfavorable one (30%).Simultaneously, the majority of Americans like their own party's representatives. About 73% of Democrats hold favorable views of congressional Democrats, while 80% of Republicans view congressional Republicans favorably.Data: Gallup; Chart: Noah Bressner/AxiosZoom in: Republicans drove much of the Supreme Court's slide.Just 58% of Republicans approve of the court this year, down from a near-record 79% in 2025.Gallup estimates those changes may reflect frustration that the court has bucked Trump on several major priorities, including birthright citizenship and tariffs.Meanwhile, Democratic support plunged after the court overturned Roe v. Wade, and Gallup suggests Democrats and independents remain unhappy with its conservative tilt.Flashback: When Gallup first asked the question in 2000, 62% of Americans approved of the Supreme Court, and a majority continued to support the court through 2010. Since then, its ratings have mostly fluctuated in the 40s as political polarization increased.Zoom out: The low rankings square with Americans' overall low confidence in 14 of the nation's core institutions.An average of just 27% of Americans say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in 14 major U.S. institutions — only one point above the record low set in 2023.There's a wide partisan split here, too. Thirty-six percent of Republicans express high confidence in institutions, compared with 23% of Democrats.The bottom line: Perceptions typically swing based on who's in the White House.But across the board, America's confidence meter is flashing warning lights.Go deeper: America's trust in institutions keeps tankingEditor's note: This story was updated with an additional finding from the poll.
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Trump busted as demand for Supreme Court 'rehearing' hits a brick wall
President Donald Trump has run out of time, and he doesn't appear to know it yet. The president took to Truth Social earlier this month after his failed ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court over birthright citizenship. "Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising birthright citizenship, with 'deliveries starting at $4,000.' Likewise, similar signs are going up all over our country. Billions of dollars will be illegally made by this scam, with citizenship going to anyone willing to pay," Trump said with his random capitalizations. "It will be by far, the number one way of becoming a citizen, and then the entire family will be allowed to follow. Not sustainable ... In fact, that is a crime, and therefore, the Supreme Court's ruling is wrong. I will be asking for rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, immediately. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don't change their absolutely insane decision. Thank you for your attention to this matter," the message read.As William and Mary law professor Jonathan H. Adler explained, Trump's demand hit a brick wall."The deadline has passed, and the Docket does not indicate any petition was filed," he wrote on X.com. SCOTUS Wire explained, "Rule 44 allows 25 days to seek rehearing. It requires the support of at least one Justice from the majority, and is rarely granted."The Supreme Court decision was handed down on June 30 and Tuesday marks 28 days since the ruling. Trump is officially outside the rule. Trump and his allies continue to make claims about birth tourism, saying that women who are eight months pregnant either fly or walk across the U.S. border to give birth. That claim was cited by Solicitor General John Sauer in oral arguments in April. Chief Justice John Roberts asked Sauer how often this is happening. Sauer responded, "No one knows for sure."Trump alleged that there are hundreds of thousands of people doing this each year."In 2020, the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates low immigration, estimated the possible number of birth tourism cases at 20,000 to 26,000 per year. For context, there were 3.61 million births in the U.S. that year," explained FactCheck.org.
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John Roberts Sends Trump a Message After His Tirade on Supreme Court
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday called for an end to “personal hostility” toward judges, a not-so-subtle message that came just two days after President Trump went on a long diatribe about courts ruling against him.“It does come with the territory.… When any of us issue an opinion, it’s often a dissent,” Roberts said when asked how he handled criticism at a Baker Institute for Public Policy panel. “It’s important that our decisions are subjected to scrutiny, and they are. The problem sometimes is that the criticism can move from a focus on legal analysis to personalities. And you see—from all over, not just any one political perspective on it—that it’s more directed in a personal way. And that, frankly, can be actually quite dangerous.”Chief Justice John Roberts amid President Trump's criticism of judges: "Personally directed hostility is dangerous and it's got to stop." pic.twitter.com/Etrm1fe86B— CSPAN (@cspan) March 17, 2026“Judges around the country work very hard to get it right. And if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism,” Roberts continued. But personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it’s got to stop.”On Sunday night, Trump raged against “the courts,” including the Supreme Court, for ruling against his tariffs. He also took time to personally attack Judge James Boasberg—who axed his attack on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last week.“They openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them to the highest position in the Land, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and go out of their way, with bad and wrongful rulings and intentions, to prove how ‘honest,’ ‘independent,’ and ‘legitimate’ they are,” Trump wrote about the Supreme Court. “The Democrat Justices just vote Democrat—They always stick together! Our Country was unnecessarily RANSACKED by the United States Supreme Court, which has become little more than a weaponized and unjust Political Organization.”He then went on to attack Boasberg with similarly inflammatory language:The Courts treat Republicans, and me, so unfairly, always seeming to protect those who should not be protected. They are highly politicized. Cases don’t matter, the Judge does! As an example, how is this absolutely terrible Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell, not even allowed to be investigated for the horrible job he does? I strongly criticized Jerome ‘Too Late’ for his horrible performance throughout his tenure, which is either gross incompetence, total dishonesty, or both, and, in return for this well justified criticism, get viciously and wrongfully blamed by, as usual, a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge, named James Boasberg, a man who suffers from the highest level of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and has been ‘after’ my people, and me, for years.Trump has long singled out judges who deliver rulings he doesn’t like. Just last month, Trump called Roberts, as well as Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Comey Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor, “FOOLS and ‘LAPDOGS’ for the RINOS and Radical Left Democrats” for striking down his “Liberation Day” tariffs.
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