Trump vs. Supreme Court: President Complains Justices Don't 'Like Me,' Calls Them Threat To Rights

President Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court Thursday, accusing the justices of taking partisan political positions in recent cases and warning the court poses a threat to religious liberty and the second amendment.

Trump’s tweetstorm followed the court’s decision rejecting administration efforts to end the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, which protects as many as 800,000 so-called Dreamers from deportation. The decision did not address the legality or merits of the DACA program. Rather, it said the Department of Homeland Security failed to follow federal law in its effort to end it. The decision invited the court to try again.

“The recent Supreme Court decisions, not only on DACA, Sanctuary Cities, Census, and others, tell you only one thing, we need NEW JUSTICES of the Supreme Court. If the Radical Left Democrats assume power, your Second Amendment, Right to Life, Secure Borders, and Religious Liberty, among many other things, are OVER and GONE!” Trump tweeted.

Trump said Thursday’s decision granted presidents “far more power” than ever was anticipated. He called on Congress to act on immigration reform.

Trump took the recent decisions personally, saying the court “doesn’t like me.” He called the decisions “horrible” and “politically charged,” and likened them to “shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives.”

Trump has appointed two justices since taking office, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Both dissented from the majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who sided with the court’s four liberal justices.

Trump said he would release a new list of possible court nominees.

The court’s oldest member, liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginzberg is 87 and has survived several bouts with cancer and other ailments. She was the second female justice confirmed to the high court and took the oath in 1993.