A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices were absent from President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address, following the court’s recent decision that struck down his global tariff policy. Only Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett attended, while Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson did not. Trump’s criticism of the justices who ruled against him highlighted tensions between the administration and the judiciary.
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