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WASHINGTON — <\/span>President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year\u2019s midterms, saying justices who opposed him were \u201cnot the people I interviewed.\u201d<\/p>\n His social media missive was just the latest in a long history of Trump assailing justices, particularly those he had nominated, who ruled against him on his administration’s most prominent initiatives. The president has been publicly furious with the Supreme Court over its decisions against restricting birthright citizenship and his ability to issue tariffs unilaterally.<\/p>\n On mail-in voting, 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 ballot. But state election officials argued there was not enough time to make the changes for the Nov. 3 midterm elections \u2014 and said their systems were already secure and accurate.<\/p>\n The court ruled late Monday in an emergency order that the restrictions would most likely lose in court, at least for this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Court\u2019s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History,\u201d Trump wrote in a lengthy social media post Tuesday. \u201cThis Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years.\u201d<\/p>\n Justices Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas publicly dissented from the order, and Trump on Tuesday called them \u201clegends both.\u201d Trump has nominated three of the justices on the Supreme Court \u2014 Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,\u201d Trump said. He asserted that the court “is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won\u2019t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal.\u201d<\/p>\n The president has a lengthy track record of attacking judges, often very personally<\/a>, who issue decisions that go against his wishes, and Trump has long viewed his legal appointments as owing loyalty to the person who nominated them to the bench. <\/p>\n So as Barrett, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch ruled against Trump at varying points over the years, the president has not hesitated to go after them publicly, while praising them if they sided with him in a case. <\/p>\n Yet this court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has ruled in favor of Trump on several of his priorities, most notably the 2024 decision from the court’s conservative majority<\/a> that said former presidents are presumptively entitled to immunity for all official acts. That paved the way for Trump to run for reelection without threat of a criminal trial that year. <\/p>\n Trump has opposed mail voting and falsely blamed it for his 2020 election loss. A report by the Brookings Institution published in 2025 found that mail voting fraud occurred in only about four cases out of every 10 million mail ballots cast.<\/p>\n Roughly a third of voters use mail ballots, and mail voting has already begun in some states. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they\u2019ve used for years.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Trump also complained that the decision took too long to issue. <\/p>\n \u201cIt is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court – it will likely cost me dearly for years to come – but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love!\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n