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When US presidents toook on the Supreme Court
Trump isn't the first president to blast the court — but he may have gone further than any before him
Thomas Jefferson fumed over Marbury v Madison (1803), which established judicial review — the very power that just sank Trump's tariffs.
Theodore Roosevelt said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes after an antitrust ruling: He "could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone." Said in private, not on live TV.
Dwight Eisenhower after Brown v. Board of Education, told friends that appointing Chief Justice Earl Warren was his biggest mistake.
Barack Obama called out the Citizens United ruling to the justices' faces at his 2010 State of the Union. Justice Samuel Alito mouthed "not true" from his seat.
"It's entirely fine for a president to criticise a Supreme Court ruling. But it's demagogic to contend the justices voted against him because of lack of courage," says Ed Whelan, former Scalia law clerk.
What happens next: Trump and several justices will likely share the same room Tuesday at the State of the Union. It won't be relaxing.
