Trump slams 3 justices he nominated after mail-voting setback: ‘Not the people I interviewed’
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked the Supreme Court after it rejected his administration’s push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterm elections, saying the justices who ruled against him were “not the people I interviewed.”The court, in an emergency order late Monday, found that the restrictions would likely not withstand legal scrutiny, at least for this year’s election.‘Not enough time’ for mail ballot changesThe Trump administration had made a last-minute push for the US Postal Service to play a central role in determining who could receive mail ballots. But state election officials argued there was not enough time to implement the changes before the November 3 midterm elections, saying existing systems were already secure and accurate.Trump, however, accused the court of failing to “do the right thing” for the country and said its decision would be remembered negatively in history.‘These are not the people I interviewed’In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the Supreme Court was being “bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left” into making decisions that had “set America back at least a hundred years.”Three justices nominated by Trump during his first term — Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh — also ruled against his administration in Monday’s decision.“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 said.He further accused the court of issuing “shockingly bad rulings” that he claimed were costing the US “Trillions of Dollars” and could make it difficult for the country to “recover or heal.”
