Trump Erupts at Supreme Court Over Mail-Voting Changes Blocked Ahead of Midterm Elections

【Financial News New York = Reporter Lee Byung-chul】 Donald Trump sharply condemned the Supreme Court for blocking his changes to the mail-voting system ahead of the midterm elections. His public attacks on three conservative justices whom he personally nominated during his first term have brought tensions between Trump and the conservative-majority Supreme Court into the open.
On the 15th local time, Trump singled out Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch in a post on Truth Social, criticizing them by saying, "They are not the people I interviewed to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States."
All three were nominated directly by Trump during his first term. Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court in 2017, Kavanaugh in 2018 and Barrett in 2020.
Trump said of the three justices, "They are only shells of what they once were." He also claimed that recent Supreme Court rulings were costing the United States trillions of dollars, saying, "The amount is so enormous that it will be difficult for the United States to recover or heal."
Trump’s direct trigger for attacking the justices was the ruling on mail voting. The Trump administration sought to significantly tighten mail-voting procedures by placing unique barcodes on voters’ mail-in ballot envelopes and requiring each state to submit information on mail voters to the United States Postal Service (USPS).
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s effort to substantially change mail-voting procedures ahead of the midterm elections. The administration’s plan would have applied new federal standards to the mail-voting process. Lower courts had been engaged in a legal dispute over whether the federal government had the authority to intervene in a mail-voting system traditionally administered by state governments.
Trump described the Supreme Court’s decision as "horrible and extremely political." He called it "a major defeat not only for the Republican Party but for the United States itself" and claimed that it would make it easier for the Democratic Party to commit fraud in mail voting.
By contrast, Trump praised Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who sided with him in the case, calling both of them "legends."

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