Trump rages at ‘weak’ Amy Coney Barrett as fury over court rulings boils over

Reports show that conservative cohorts of Donald Trump have been privately telling the President that they think Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is 'weak' in private conversations.

Sources familiar with the matter told CNN that Trump has lashed out at his other Supreme Court picks, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, in private as well, but Barrett has drawn a particular ire from some Republicans, who claim that her rulings are not consistent with her opinions that she presented before Trump when she was appointed in 2020.

CNN paraphrased the sources, writing: "The behind-closed-doors grievances have been wide-ranging. Another added, “The complaints have gone on for at least a year. It’s not just one ruling. It’s been a few different events he’s complained about privately," citing the senior administration official.

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Harrison Fields, principal deputy press secretary, previously said in a statement about SCOTUS that "President Trump will always stand with the U.S. Supreme Court, unlike the Democrat Party, which, if given the opportunity, would pack the court, ultimately undermining its integrity. The President may disagree with the Court and some of its rulings, but he will always respect its foundational role."

Trump has feuded with the Supreme Court at times throughout his most recent presidency, as the leading component of justice in the U.S. consistently blocks and sometimes unblocks Trump's rulings.

Commentator Mike Davis declared on Steve Bannon’s podcast that, "She’s a rattled law professor with her head up her ass," when Barrett has come under conservative fire in March for voting to stop Trump from freezing nearly $2 billion in foreign aid. Far-right influencer Laura Loomer wrote on X in March that “Amy Coney Barrett was a DEI appointee,” in anger.

But it goes all the way back to January, when Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with the court’s three liberals in rejecting then-President elect Donald Trump’s final bid to put his New York hush-money case on hold, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for felony crimes days before he returns to the presidency. He ultimately had no pentalty in this case.

However, the conservative-majority court has handed Trump major victories over the past year, ensuring that states could not kick him off the ballot because of the 2021 attack on the Capitol and giving him immunity from prosecution over some acts he took as president in a ruling that delayed an election-interference case against him.