Trump lashes out at Supreme Court after justices block his mail-voting restrictions

The Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision leaves a lower-court block on the administration’s mail-voting rules in place for the 2026 elections.

President Donald Trump is lashing out at the U.S. Supreme Court after the justices rejected his administration’s effort to impose new restrictions on mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

In a lengthy post on Truth Social Tuesday, Trump called the ruling “another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court” and described mail-in voting as a “totally CORRUPT and out of control” system.

Trump also took aim at the Supreme Court itself, including the three justices he appointed during his first term. He wrote that the justices were “not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court” and called the court “a shell of their original selves,” according to Axios.

The comments came one day after the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, rejected the administration’s request to allow new U.S. Postal Service rules governing mail ballots to take effect before the November elections. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.

The ruling leaves in place a lower-court injunction blocking the rules. The administration had sought to require states to provide voter information to the Postal Service and establish new standards for mail-ballot envelopes, including unique barcodes and other identifying features.

The administration argued that the changes would improve election security. Opponents argued that implementing new requirements so close to the election could cause confusion and result in legitimate ballots not being counted.

The justices’ brief order said the government was “unlikely to succeed on the merits” of its challenge and had not demonstrated that the circumstances justified emergency relief. The decision did not definitively resolve every underlying legal question surrounding the administration’s authority.

A federal judge had also recently blocked the Postal Service rules, finding that the administration had not demonstrated that the Postal Service had the statutory authority to impose key portions of the requirements. The New York Times reported that the ruling represented another setback for Trump’s effort to exert greater federal control over the administration of elections.

Trump specifically praised Thomas and Alito, the two justices who dissented, referring to them as “legends both.” All three of his appointees — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — were part of the majority.

“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.

For now, the Supreme Court’s decision means existing mail-voting procedures remain in place as states prepare for the November midterms.