(Feb 21): President Donald Trump took the Supreme Court’s tariffs ruling personally, and he made it personal in response. On Friday he called the plaintiff who initiated the court challenge, a family-owned maker of educational toys, “sleaze bags”. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School, said he could not “think of any president ever speaking of the Supreme Court or a decision in that way”. “I think President Trump would be wise to no longer call the justices somehow tools of foreign influence.”Trump and many, if not all, of the justices will come face-to-face on Tuesday when he delivers his State of the Union address. Asked on Friday whether the justices were still invited to his speech, Trump said: “Barely.”

Source: The Edge Markets February 20, 2026 16:43 UTC