WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sharply criticized the Supreme Court on Tuesday after it refused his administration’s bid to limit mail-in voting in this year’s midterm elections, saying the justices who ruled against him were “not the people I interviewed.”
The administration had mounted a late effort to give the U.S. Postal Service a major role in determining who could receive a mail ballot. State election officials, however, said there was insufficient time to implement the proposed changes before the Nov. 3 midterm elections and maintained that their existing systems were secure and accurate.
In an emergency order issued late Monday, the court said the proposed restrictions were likely to fail in court, at least for this year’s election.
“The Court’s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History,” Trump wrote in a lengthy social media post Tuesday. “This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years.”
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh — all nominated by Trump during his first term — joined the ruling against him Monday.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,” Trump said. He added that the court “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.”
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