Trump calls Supreme Court mail ballot ruling 'big loss for Republicans'

President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted the Supreme Court for blocking a new controversial U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots from being used for the upcoming midterm elections.

"It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left "Dumocrats," on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do," Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Trump also harshly criticized his three appointees to the Supreme Court for apparently joining with all three liberal justices, plus Chief Justice John Roberts, on Monday in upholding a Boston federal district court judge's injunction preventing the Postal Service rule from being applied to ballots mailed in for November's elections.

"These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves, a Court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings," Trump wrote.

One of Trump's appointees, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, had written Monday that while there is "a fair prospect" that the Postal Service rule might ultimately be found to be legal, "applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections."

Trump's other two appointees are Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.

In February, when Gorsuch and Barrett had joined their fellow conservative Roberts and the three liberal justices in a majority ruling against Trump's wide-ranging tariffs on imports, the president called their votes "an embarrassment to their families, to one another."

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