Former President Donald Trump issued a sharp rebuke of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, criticizing the justices after they rejected a legal maneuver aimed at changing mail-in voting practices weeks before the midterm elections.
Trump's legal team had appealed to the court to permit an executive order that would have allowed the U.S. Postal Service to implement new rules for mail-in ballots. These rules would have permitted the government to cross-reference mail-in ballots against a central voter registry and discard those not matching. This was the third time the Trump administration had sought the high court's intervention on the matter.
The court denied the request in an emergency order issued Monday evening. Trump responded on Tuesday morning, stating, "The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does - It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm!"
He further accused the court of being "bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years." Trump also cited the court's mention of the tight timeline before the elections as a reason for their decision, calling the current state of mail-in voting a "nation destroying scam" that makes the U.S. "a laughing stock all over the world."
"It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left “Dumocrats,” on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do - And now they have an open field to do so!" Trump declared.
Only Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the majority opinion. Trump expressed his gratitude to them, calling them "legends."
The ruling was notably opposed by the three justices appointed by Trump. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, concurred with the majority, suggesting that while the USPS might possess the authority to enact such rules, election officials would not have adequate time to implement them before the November midterm elections.
Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, also Trump appointees, along with Chief Justice John Roberts, sided with the liberal justices in rejecting Trump's proposal. Trump commented on these justices, stating, "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."
