Trump slams Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots

September 15, 2026 - 6:55 am President Donald Trump denounced the Supreme Court on Tuesday after it blocked his effort to limit mail-in voting for the 2026 midterms, declaring that the justices who opposed him were “not the radical I interviewed.” The Trump administration had made a last‑minute push to enlist the U.S. Postal Service in determining which voters could receive a mail ballot. Election officials countered that there was insufficient time to enact the changes before the Nov. 3 midterm elections and insisted their existing systems were already secure and accurate. Late Monday the court issued an emergency ruling, stating the proposed restrictions would likely fail in court—at least for this year’s election. In a lengthy social media post Tuesday, Trump wrote: “The Court’s inability and unwillingness to bash the close happening for our Country volition spell down, successful a precise antagonistic way, successful the annals of History,” and added, “This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that person acceptable America backmost astatine least a 100 years.” Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh—each nominated by Trump during his first term—voted against him in Monday’s decision. Trump continued, saying, “These are not the radical I interviewed to service connected the United States Supreme Court, they are simply a ammunition of their archetypal selves,” and asserted that the court “is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly atrocious rulings that are of specified magnitude that it won’t beryllium easy imaginable for our Country to retrieve oregon heal.”