Trump Criticizes His Supreme Court Picks Over Mail-In Ballot Ruling

“The Court’s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History,” Trump wrote. “This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years.”

The President lauded Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who publicly dissented from the order, calling them “legends both.”

In his dissent, Alito penned that the USPS “has broad authority to regulate the mail” and likely has the power to implement Trump’s preferred limits. He also criticized the litigant states who challenged the restrictions in court ahead of the midterms, writing: “The plaintiff states cannot claim the timing of the rule tilts the equities in their favor when they, and courts hearing their claims, are responsible for so much of the delay.”

But the Supreme Court ruling is unlikely to stop Trump from trying to limit mail voting. Later Tuesday, Attorney General Todd Blanche said that while the Administration acknowledged the court’s order and would comply, “President Trump’s efforts to make sure that we have free and fair elections are not going to stop just in November or after or thereafter.”