President Trump has "no regrets" over his controversial attacks on the federal judiciary, his top spokesman said Thursday.

“I think the president’s comments speak for themselves," White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at the daily briefing. “No, he has no regrets."

Trump's repeated broadsides against judges handling a lawsuit against his executive order on immigration have drawn criticism from across the political spectrum, including from his own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

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But Spicer said Trump will continue to speak out when he feels like he is being treated unfairly by judges, likening it to the approach taken by Thomas Jefferson.

“Of course he will, the president is going to speak his mind," he said. "The idea of one branch commenting on another branch is as old as our republic.”

Spicer did not cite specific comments made by Jefferson, a founding father and the nation's third president.