A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices were absent from President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address Tuesday night, a notable development that came just days after the high court struck down his global tariff policy.
Only Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett attended the speech.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson did not attend.
