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

Mail-in ballots are prepared at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C., on Sept.

11, 2026. —Allison Joyce—Bloomberg/Getty Images President Donald Trump launched a missive against the Supreme Court on Tuesday after it blocked his Administration’s plan to implement changes to mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms .

In a lengthy post on his social media platform Truth Social, the President took aim at unnamed “Certain Justices” whom he claimed were “petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats,” adding: “These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves.” Trump appointed three Justices to the court—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—during his first term.

With the court handing Trump a handful of legal victories since, his second-term Administration sought an emergency allowance for restrictions on mailed ballots, arguing that such action is necessary to curb electoral fraud—the President’s past claims of widespread electoral fraud have been repeatedly debunked.

But on Monday, the Supreme Court, in a one-paragraph unsigned order , denied Trump’s bid.

The court argued that Trump is likely to lose in court over its push for last-minute changes: Kavanaugh, concurring with the majority, wrote separately that, while the U.S.

Postal Service may have authority to implement restrictions, applying them for the 2026 polls “would be arbitrary and capricious” as state and local election officials would lack time to implement them.

The court order has significant implications for the midterms—in which Republicans are seeking to defend their majority in Congress —as nearly 30% of voters nationwide mail in their ballots.

“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.