Trump Blasts Own Justices Over Mail-Vote Ruling
Trump Blasts Own Justices Over Mail-Vote Ruling
The News
President Donald Trump attacked the Supreme Court justices he put on the bench after the court blocked his order rewriting mail-in voting rules ahead of the midterms.
In a lengthy online post Tuesday, Trump wrote: "These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves," according to the New York Post.
CNN reported he called the justices "shells" beholden to "crazed" liberal interests, a day after the court struck down his plan to make dramatic changes to mail-in voting.
What He Said
Mediaite reported Trump called the justices "petrified," said the ruling gives Democrats "an open field" to cheat, and said the court "really let our country down."
The New York Post reported the president's criticism landed on his three appointees — Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
Timeline
The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's mail-in voting order, blocking the changes he sought before the midterm elections, Axios reported.
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough accuses two of the court's most conservative justices of being "all in" on what he called Trump's plot to "destroy democracy."
Trump posts his attack on the justices, saying they are "a shell of their original selves."
Reactions
Trump's own words were the sharpest reaction: his appointees, he wrote, "are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court."
Axios framed the moment as Trump turning on the Supreme Court he helped build — a majority shaped by his first-term appointments.
On the left, Scarborough went the other direction, ripping the two most conservative justices as "bullsh*t conservative" and "perfectly fine" with Trump damaging democracy, per Mediaite. Mediaite noted he took a markedly different tone toward the other Republican-appointed justices.
Trump's claim about the consequences was blunt: without his restrictions, he argued, Democrats have "an open field" to cheat in November.
What's Next
The Supreme Court's ruling stands, so the mail-in voting changes Trump ordered will not be in place for the midterms unless the administration finds another route.
Expect the fight to move to the states, which run their own mail balloting rules, and to Trump's continued public pressure on the court as the election approaches.
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