{"id":164168,"date":"2026-10-01T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/01\/trump-regrets-his-supreme-court-picks-because-they-keep-voting-against-him\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:44:00","slug":"trump-regrets-his-supreme-court-picks-because-they-keep-voting-against-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/01\/trump-regrets-his-supreme-court-picks-because-they-keep-voting-against-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Regrets His Supreme Court Picks Because They Keep Voting Against Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><u>Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/quote-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in. \u200bThey voted against me too often. I was very \u2014 I gave them \u200bthe position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span><i>\u2014<\/i><\/span><b> <\/b>President Donald Trump, telling Time that he regrets nominating Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett because they have ruled against him \u201ctoo often,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/trump-says-he-regrets-nominating-supreme-court-justices-gorsuch-barrett-2026-10-01\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>. Although Trump acknowledged that he likes loyalty, he insisted that he doesn\u2019t expect it from the justices: \u201cI want good decisions,\u201d he said. Of course, his definition of a good decision seems to be one that gives him what he wants.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66762\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/staci-zaretsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to <a href=\"mailto:staci@abovethelaw.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/stacizaretsky.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bluesky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X\/Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/staci-zaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/trump-regrets-his-supreme-court-picks-because-they-keep-voting-against-him\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Regrets His Supreme Court Picks Because They Keep Voting Against Him<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/Trump-SCOTUS-Supreme-Court-Crying-Sad-via-ChatGPT-e1762449605182-265x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Image created by ChatGPT)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><u>Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/quote-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in. \u200bThey voted against me too often. I was very \u2014 I gave them \u200bthe position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><i>\u2014<\/i>President Donald Trump, telling Time that he regrets nominating Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett because they have ruled against him \u201ctoo often,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/trump-says-he-regrets-nominating-supreme-court-justices-gorsuch-barrett-2026-10-01\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>. Although Trump acknowledged that he likes loyalty, he insisted that he doesn\u2019t expect it from the justices: \u201cI want good decisions,\u201d he said. Of course, his definition of a good decision seems to be one that gives him what he wants.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66762\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/staci-zaretsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#3d4e495c5e547d5c5f524b58495558515c4a135e5250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/stacizaretsky.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bluesky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X\/Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/staci-zaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in. \u200bThey voted against me too often. I was very \u2014 I gave them \u200bthe position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. \u2014 President Donald Trump, telling Time that he regrets nominating Supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}