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

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September 15, 2026 e-Paper

Updated – September 15, 2026 08:00 pm IST – Washington

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday, September 14, 2026, to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce a rule targeting mail-in ballots. File
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday (September 15, 2026) went after the U.S. Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year's midterms, saying justices who opposed him were “not the people I interviewed.” The Trump administration had made a last-minute push to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central role in deciding who would be able to receive a mail ballot. But state election officials argued there was not enough time to make the changes for the November 3 midterm elections — and said their systems were already secure and accurate.

The court ruled late on Monday (September 14, 2026) in an emergency order that the restrictions would likely lose in court, at least for this year's election.

“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,” Mr. Trump wrote in a lengthy social media post on Tuesday (September 15, 2026). “This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years.” Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh were all nominated by Mr. Trump in his first term but ruled against him in Monday's decision.

“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,” Mr. Trump said, continuing that the court "is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won't be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal.”

Published – September 15, 2026 07:55 pm IST

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