President Donald Trump erupted on social media Tuesday, slamming the Supreme Court after it blocked his administration from rolling out new restrictions on mail-in voting weeks before the November midterms.
In a Truth Social post, the president accused the justices of caving to political pressure, calling the ruling “a big loss for Republicans” and claiming the current court barely resembles the one he originally nominated. He praised Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, calling them “legends” for siding with his administration, while suggesting the rest of the court had let the country down.
“Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting ‘disaster,’ which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM,” Trump wrote.
Trump ripped Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, calling out their opposition to his policies on multiple rulings, including tariffs and birthright citizenship.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves, a Court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won’t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal,” he said.
“Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats, and are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America,” Trump added.
Trump’s statement came after the Supreme Court, in a brief unsigned order issued Monday night, refused to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce a new rule tied to one of Trump’s executive orders, which would require states to hand over lists of eligible voters so USPS could verify them before delivering mail-in ballots. The rule also set strict design requirements for ballot envelopes. The justices left in place an injunction from a federal judge in Boston, who had blocked the rule from taking effect.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee who sided with the majority in this case, wrote separately to explain his reasoning. He said the Postal Service may ultimately have the legal authority to issue such a rule, but argued it would be unreasonable to force election officials to implement it this close to the midterms given how little time they’d have to prepare.
Justices Alito and Thomas dissented from the order, arguing the administration had done enough to justify blocking the lower court’s order and that the challengers bringing the case lacked enough legal standing.
In March, the president signed an executive order aimed at cracking down on alleged voter fraud tied to mail-in ballots. Two dozen mostly Democratic-led states, led by California, sued, arguing the order violated states’ constitutional authority over how their elections are run.
After a federal judge sided with the states, the Supreme Court briefly let the administration move forward in late August on procedural grounds, before the judge blocked the USPS-specific rules again in early September.
That set up the latest showdown, which the administration lost.
For now, the November midterms will proceed without the new USPS mail-in voting restrictions, but the broader legal battle over the rule’s future is expected to continue in the lower courts.
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