U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with travel industry executives in the Oval Office of the White House on September 2, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized the Supreme Court for blocking the U.S. Postal Service’s use of controversial new mail-in voting rules in the upcoming midterm elections, after critics warned they would make it harder for many people to vote.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump said, “Republicans have just gotten another bad decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s a decision that took forever for the court system to hand down, and they blame the Supreme Court in part for leaving no time to implement a solution to a mail-in voting ‘disaster’ that is completely corrupt and out of control.”
The day after the Supreme Court decision, President Trump said, “This is a huge loss for the Republican Party and for America itself, and will make it much easier for radical left-wing ‘Democrats’ to cheat on mail-in voting.”
President Trump’s fellow Republicans are seeking to maintain slim majorities in both chambers of Congress in November’s elections.
President Trump also harshly criticized three Supreme Court nominees on Monday for appearing to join all three liberal justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, in upholding a Boston federal judge’s injunction that blocked Postal Service rules from applying to mailed ballots for the November election.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court. They are empty shells of their true selves, a court that has cost America trillions of dollars with shockingly bad decisions,” Trump said in a post.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, one of President Trump’s appointees who agreed to block the rule for now, said in a concurrence letter Monday that there is a “reasonable prospect” that the Postal Service rule will ultimately be found legal.
But, Kavanaugh added, “state and local election officials have not had sufficient time to reasonably implement the rules before the election, so applying this rule in the 2026 election would be arbitrary and capricious, and would violate the Administrative Procedure Act.”
Two others appointed by President Trump are Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.
In February, when Gorsuch and Barrett, along with fellow conservative Roberts and three liberal justices, issued a majority ruling against President Trump’s sweeping import tariffs, the president criticized their vote as “an embarrassment to our families and each other.”
In June, Barrett and Cano joined other justices to block President Trump’s executive order that would have automatically revoked the birthright citizenship of many children of immigrants.
President Trump referenced both the tariffs and the birthright citizenship ruling in a post Tuesday.
“Some judges are so intimidated by these crazy, corrupt Democrats that they simply cannot show the courage necessary to save America,” the president said. “Their terrible decisions on tariffs will cost the United States trillions of dollars for years to come.”
“Similarly, the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship is a complete and total disaster for America, and has already led to massive corruption in our nation’s ‘civil rights,'” Trump said.
Monday’s majority decision by the Supreme Court was not signed, with only Kavanaugh writing a separate, brief consent letter.
The fact that only two conservative justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, publicly dissented means that the vote to block the Postal Service rule was 7-2.
President Trump praised Alito and Thomas’ dissent, calling them “legends.”
Postal Service rules issued in late August implemented an executive order on mail-in voting issued by President Trump in March.
The rule established new standards for ballot envelopes and required states to create a list of voters eligible to receive mail-in ballots.
