President Donald Trump attacked the Supreme Court in a Truth Social post at 9:27 a.m. Tuesday Donald J. Trump: "Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Cou... - Trump’s Truth, saying the court has "really let our Country down" and that "Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats," a day after the court's Sept. 14 order 26a305 4g15 Donald J. Trump: "Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Cou... - Trump’s Truth, in which the justices blocked his administration's new mail-ballot rule 26a305 4g15 VOTEBEAT: U.S. Supreme Court blocks mail ballot restrictions from taking effect in 2026 - THE INDIANA CITIZEN Issue One Celebrates Supreme Court Ruling to Halt Trump Administration Attempt to Rush Mail in Ballot Restrictions Before Midterms - Issue One for the 2026 elections VOTEBEAT: U.S. Supreme Court blocks mail ballot restrictions from taking effect in 2026 - THE INDIANA CITIZEN Donald J. Trump: "Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Cou... - Trump’s Truth .
The order in United States Postal Service v. California left intact a lower-court injunction, keeping the rule blocked for this year's elections. In a brief, unsigned ruling, the court said the government was "unlikely to succeed on the merits," and Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately that the rule could not be put in place in time for the 2026 elections 26a305 4g15 VOTEBEAT: U.S. Supreme Court blocks mail ballot restrictions from taking effect in 2026 - THE INDIANA CITIZEN.
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, dissented. Kavanaugh concurred, and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett joined the majority — meaning none of Trump's three appointees supported the administration's position 26a305 4g15 Alito, Thomas stand by Trump mail voting rule the rest of Supreme Court rejected.
Trump singled out the two dissenters. "Justices Alito and Thomas, legends both, strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling," he wrote .
The rule, which followed a March 2026 executive order, would have required states to enroll every voter eligible to vote by mail with the Postal Service and to use USPS-approved barcoded ballot envelopes. With the rule blocked, mail voting proceeds as it did before, and election clerks avoid a last-minute overhaul Michigan Officials on Supreme Court USPS Mail Ballot Rule Decision Issue One Celebrates Supreme Court Ruling to Halt Trump Administration Attempt to Rush Mail in Ballot Restrictions Before Midterms - Issue One.
The White House did not immediately issue a formal statement beyond Trump's posts. New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of the Democratic officials who sued, said the court "protected one of our most fundamental, inalienable rights." Michigan's secretary of state and attorney general said they were "profoundly relieved" Supreme Court blocks new Postal Service rules for mail ballots in blow to Trump Michigan Officials on Supreme Court USPS Mail Ballot Rule Decision.
Trump also cited earlier defeats , including rulings against his tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act Supreme Court Strikes Down President Trump’s Tariffs and his birthright-citizenship policy Trump v. Barbara - Wikipedia. Unlike the mail-ballot order, both came after the court's ordinary merits process Supreme Court Kills Trump's Tariffs: What It Means and What Comes Next Challenging Supreme Court, Trump doubles down on efforts to limit birthright citizenship, influence the Fed and impose tariffs.
Trump has used the "petrified" phrasing before. In November 2022 he wrote that the justices "are petrified of the Radical Left Maniacs (Democrats)." In Tuesday's post, he wrote of the current court: "These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves" .
In two later posts, Trump suggested former FBI Director Christopher Wray had withheld information about the 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting Donald J. Trump: "Everybody knows the Crooked Joe Biden FBI didn’t do what they should have wi... - Trump’s Truth [r021] Butler Investigation Updates | Federal Bureau of Investigation and said a judge had forced the Kennedy Center to stay open despite what he described as falling concrete Donald J. Trump: "Everybody knows the Crooked Joe Biden FBI didn’t do what they should have wi... - Trump’s Truth Donald J. Trump: "The Kennedy Center is in a virtual state of collapse, and has been for many... - Trump’s Truth.
Wray testified to Congress that the FBI had "not found any evidence of any accomplices or co-conspirators, foreign or domestic" WATCH: Rep. Massie questions FBI Director Wray in House hearing on Trump shooting probe.
On the Kennedy Center, Trump said Tuesday, "I am only there to help" . On May 30 he wrote that he had "canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center" . The dispute is before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Beatty v. Trump Judge blocks Kennedy Center from shutting down for renovations, orders Trump's name removed.
Trump blamed the court for "costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings" . On Feb. 20 he wrote that the justices "did not overrule TARIFFS, they merely overruled a particular use of IEEPA TARIFFS" .