The President of the United States, Donald Trump, issued sharp criticisms of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, after the court rejected his attempt to impose new restrictions on mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections. In a post on Truth Social, the Republican stressed that the decision represents a “great defeat” for the Republican Party and for the country, and accused the Court of facilitating electoral fraud by Democrats.
Trump again described mail-in voting as “corrupt” and “out of control” and said that Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas strongly disagreed with the decision. “The Supreme Court really let our country down!”, he wrote. The president also accused some justices of being intimidated by the “radical left” and stated that the court had lost the courage necessary to “save the United States.”
The Court’s decision preserves, in practice, the current rules for mailing ballots and reduces uncertainty about the organization of this year’s legislative elections. Trump sought to expand the role of the United States Postal Service in deciding who could receive a ballot by mail. Studies cited by election authorities, however, indicate that fraud in this type of voting is extremely rare.
In the same post, Trump broadened his attacks on the Supreme Court and criticized prior rulings on tariffs and birthright citizenship, which, in his view, would cause losses of “trillions and trillions of dollars” and “incalculable” harm to the country. “This is not the Court I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,” he said, referring to the justices he appointed during his terms.
Trump also said that the Court will be remembered for some of the most destructive, harmful, and damaging decisions in American history and said he considers it his “duty” to publicly criticize the court.
*With information from the Associated Press*
