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TPM writes - President Donald Trump berated Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett on Sunday, in another social media rant in which he accused the justices of being insufficiently loyal to him. “They were appointed by me,” said Trump, yet they “voted against me” in the tariffs case—and, he predicted, they “will be ruling against us on Birthright Citizenship,” too. According to Trump, Republican justices on the Supreme Court “often go out of their way” to oppose him in order to show how “independent” they are. He considers this a mistake. “It’s really OK for them to be loyal to the person that appointed them to ‘almost’ the highest position in the land, that is, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court,” he wrote. This is not the first time that Trump has suggested that adverse rulings by judges he appoints are tantamount to personal betrayal. In March, for example, Trump complained that Republican justices “openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them” in misguided attempts to “prove” how “legitimate” they are. And in April, Trump described the Court’s tariffs ruling as a “slap in the face,” and lamented that “Republican Justices don’t stick together.” The concept that judges owe Trump loyalty goes directly against the Constitution and our laws. The judicial branch is meant to be co-equal and act as a check to the balance of our government system. The Supreme Court and many other judges are now seen as obviously politically or ideologically motivated when making rulings. This must stop! It is degrading our Democracy in such a dangerous manner that we might not recover if acrion isn't taken soon! Please do everything in your power to hold the President and our Courts accountable to the Constitution. Please press for term limits for the Supreme Court Justices, and enforceable ethics codes. We must restore trust in our judiciary. They must be made to operate within the confines of the law, not to operate based off of what the President wants.