Topline
President Donald Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court Wednesday on Truth Social, expressing his anger for overturning his landmark tariffs and calling the court’s first Black female justice, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a “Low IQ person”—despite criticism his frequent use of the insult is a racist, sexist trope.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during the graduation ceremony for American University’s law school at American University in Washington, D.C. on May 20, 2023. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Key Facts
Trump complained that liberal justices consistently vote as a block, while some conservative justices often break with the majority to rule unfavorably against Trump, most notably in overturning his tariffs.
Without naming Jackson, he referred to her as “that new, Low IQ person, that somehow found her way to the bench.”
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