Trump says Justices Barrett, Gorsuch ‘sicken me’ after Supreme Court tariff ruling

President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized two of his Supreme Court appointees — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — for voting with other justices in the bombshell 6-3 decision that ruled his signature reciprocal tariffs were illegal , saying they sickened him and are "bad for our country." "Two of the people that voted for that, I appointed," Trump said at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner at Union Station in Washington, D.C., without naming the two justices. Trump blasted Gorsuch and Barrett, along with the four other justices in the majority of the case, for not exempting the U.S. government from refunding up to $165 billion in tariffs paid by American importers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act . Read more CNBC politics coverage Pakistan offers to facilitate U.S.-Iran war talks as Trump, Tehran give mixed signals DCCC launches geotargeted digital ad campaign hitting GOP for gas prices Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin as next DHS secretary "The Supreme Court, that's right, of the United States cost our country — all they needed was a sentence — our country hundreds of billions of dollars, and they couldn't care less," Trump fumed. "They couldn't care less." Referring to Gorsuch and Barrett, Trump said, "And they sicken me." "They sicken me because they're bad for our country," Trump added. Trump's other appointee to the high court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, dissented along with two fellow conservatives, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. The majority, in its decision in the case known as Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump , said on Feb. 20 that a president does not have the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on imports from most countries under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as Trump had claimed. "Based on two words separated by 16 others in Section 1702 1 of IEEPA —'regulate' and 'importation' — the President asserts the independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, of...