{"id":12845,"date":"2026-09-15T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=12845"},"modified":"2026-09-15T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:07:22","slug":"trump-turns-on-his-supreme-court-picks-after-mail-ballot-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/news\/trump-turns-on-his-supreme-court-picks-after-mail-ballot-setback\/njackson\/2026\/09\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Turns on His Supreme Court Picks After Mail-Ballot Setback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump tore into the Supreme Court on Tuesday after the justices rejected his administration\u2019s emergency push to impose new mail-ballot rules before the Nov. 3 midterm elections \u2014 and he made clear that some of his sharpest anger was aimed at the three justices he put on the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,\u201d Trump wrote in a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117275286602582454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Truth Social post<\/a>, referring to a Court that includes his nominees Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. He called the justices \u201cmerely a shell of their original selves\u201d and accused the Court of being pressured by the political left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump singled out Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas \u2014 the only two justices who publicly dissented from Monday\u2019s order \u2014 as \u201clegends both,\u201d according to the ABC News report provided as the basis for this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outburst followed a major election-year setback, but the ruling was narrower than a final decision striking down the administration\u2019s policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an unsigned, one-paragraph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/26a305_4g15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">order<\/a>, the Supreme Court denied the administration\u2019s request to pause a lower-court injunction. The majority said the government was \u201cunlikely to succeed on the merits\u201d of its challenge and had not shown that the balance of equities favored emergency relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The practical result is straightforward: states can continue using their existing mail-ballot procedures for this year\u2019s midterms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kavanaugh Breaks With Trump \u2014 For Now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kavanaugh, one of Trump\u2019s three nominees, wrote separately to explain that timing was decisive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said there was \u201cat least a fair prospect\u201d that the Postal Service\u2019s final rule fell within the agency\u2019s legal authority. But imposing it during the 2026 elections, he concluded, would be \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d because state and local officials did not have enough time to implement it reasonably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That distinction matters. The Court did not settle every legal question surrounding the rule or permanently bar a future version. It kept the injunction in place for an election already underway in parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alito, joined by Thomas, argued that the administration had made the showing required for a stay. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/26a305_4g15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dissent<\/a> said the Postal Service has broad power to regulate the mail and blamed the challengers and lower courts for much of the delay that pushed the dispute so close to Election Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Rule Behind the Fight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s March 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/03\/ensuring-citizenship-verification-and-integrity-in-federal-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive order<\/a> directed the Postal Service to develop national standards for federal ballot mail. Those standards included official election-mail markings, automation-compatible envelopes, individualized barcodes and Postal Service design review. The plan also called for voters receiving mail ballots to be enrolled through state-specific lists submitted to a federal system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Postal Service\u2019s final rule, issued in August, required election officials to submit voter information through a new Federal Ballot Mail Portal. Noncompliant mailings could be rejected and returned to the sending jurisdiction, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/26a305_4g15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court\u2019s account of the rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administration framed the changes as election-security safeguards. A White House spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/09\/14\/trumps-mail-ballot-rules-blocked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Axios<\/a> that officials had ample time to prepare and called the requirements \u201ccommonsense measures\u201d intended to secure mail voting and prevent ineligible voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opponents \u2014 including Democratic-led states, voting-rights groups and election administrators \u2014 argued that the president and Postal Service were reaching into powers reserved to Congress and the states while forcing a sweeping operational change only weeks before the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That argument has gained traction in more than one courtroom. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, separately found that Congress authorized the Postal Service to handle mail, not to make states enroll voters in a federal portal or refuse ballots that fail the new checks. His <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.291053\/gov.uscourts.dcd.291053.192.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sept. 13 opinion<\/a> imposed another block on key parts of the rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Familiar Collision With the Court<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s response also reopened a long-running tension between the president and the conservative-majority Court he helped shape. In Tuesday\u2019s post, he broadened his attack beyond mail voting, citing earlier defeats involving tariffs and birthright citizenship. Yet the Court has also delivered major victories for Trump, including its 2024 presidential-immunity ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mail-ballot fight carries immediate consequences because roughly one-third of voters cast ballots by mail, according to ABC News, and some states have already begun sending ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has long argued that mail voting invites fraud. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/mail-voting-in-the-us-data-points-to-very-low-fraud-and-significant-benefits-to-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2025 Brookings Institution analysis<\/a>, drawing on documented cases from four general elections between 2016 and 2022, estimated about four mail-voting fraud cases for every 10 million mail ballots cast. Brookings noted that the underlying Heritage Foundation database was not comprehensive, while arguing that even assumptions designed to inflate the rate still produced a very low figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, the Court\u2019s order freezes the administration\u2019s overhaul for the 2026 midterms. The broader legal fight over how far the Postal Service may go in regulating ballot mail is not necessarily finished \u2014 but Trump\u2019s fury with the justices is already out in the open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump tore into the Supreme Court on Tuesday after the justices rejected his administration\u2019s emergency push to impose new mail-ballot rules before the Nov. 3 midterm elections \u2014 and he made clear that some of his sharpest anger was aimed at the three justices he put on the bench. \u201cThese are not the 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