Trump Attacks Supreme Court After Mail-In Voting Rejection — SkimNews
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- U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency order on Monday, September 14, 2026, rejecting the Trump administration's push to restrict mail-in voting, ruling the restrictions would likely lose in court at least for this year's election.
- Trump administration had made a last-minute push to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central role in deciding who could receive a mail ballot for the November 3 midterms.
- State election officials argued there was not enough time to implement the changes before the November 3 midterms and maintained their existing systems were already secure and accurate.
- Trump fired back on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, calling the justices who opposed him 'not the people I interviewed' and accusing the court of being 'bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left.'
- Trump-appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh all ruled against him in Monday's decision, prompting Trump to say they are 'merely a shell of their original selves.'
- Trump wrote on social media that the court's 'inability and unwillingness to do the right thing' would 'go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History.'
Why it matters: Three of Trump's own first-term appointees — Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh — sided against him on a marquee election-integrity push weeks before the November 3 midterms, publicly exposing a rift between the president and the conservative justices he elevated to the bench.
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