Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee breaks from him over 'demoralising' attacks on judges after president called them 'disgraceful'

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• Supreme Court nominee breaks from Trump over 'disheartening' attacks on judges
•  Trump lashes out at  'disgraceful' court hearings over travel ban
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• Sean Spicer defends Trump's tweeting in support of his daughter's business
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Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee has called the president's attacks on the judiciary "disheartening" after Mr Trump went after the appeals court considering his travel ban.

Neil Gorsuch has only just been nominated for the court, but defended the federal judges that have become targets of Mr Trump's ire.

Meanwhile Sean Spicer, Mr Trump's spokesman, has defended the president's use of his official twitter account to support his daughter Ivanka's clothing line, in a wide-ranging press conference to defend the two-week-old presidency.

  He was also asked repeatedly about the president's response to the travel ban hearing, after Mr Trump this morning angrily denounced the three judges hearing his travel ban appeal - describing the process as "disgraceful" and saying it was a "sad day" for the United States.

Addressing a conference of police chiefs, Mr Trump told the crowd he had listened to Tuesday's hearing with dismay.

"I won't say the court was biased. But so political," he said.

Mr Trump attempted to litigate the case himself, reading at length from a document and commenting on how it proved the legal foundations of his travel ban - which was halted on Friday.

Mr Trump went on: "I listened to lawyers on both sides last night, they were talking about things that had nothing to do with it.

"It's so sad when you read something so perfectly written and so clear to anybody. I watched last night in amazement and I heard things I couldn't believe.

"I don't ever want to call a court biased so I won't call it biased, and we haven't had a decision yet, but courts seem to be so political. "But it would be so great for our system if they could read something and do what's right."