Trump Criticizes His Supreme Court Picks Over Mail-In Ballot Ruling
The President complained that some Justices have not ruled as he expected.
Former President Donald Trump took to social media to condemn the Supreme Court on Tuesday after it rejected his Administration's request to implement changes to mail-in voting rules ahead of the November midterms. In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, Trump criticized unnamed "Certain Justices" who he claimed were "petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats" and were not the individuals he had chosen to serve on the Court.
Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Court during his first term. Despite the Court's denial of Trump's emergency request, nearly 30% of voters nationwide currently participate in mail-in voting. Trump called the Court's decision "a very negative way" to set America back and praised Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas for their dissent.
The Court's unsigned order argued that Trump was unlikely to win a legal battle over the last-minute changes, citing the USPS's lack of time to implement the restrictions.
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