WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at the US Supreme Court justices he appointed after the high court declined to let the US Postal Service enforce a rule targeting mail-in ballots before November midterm elections.
‘This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years,’ the Republican president wrote on social media.
‘These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves ....
The US Supreme Court dealt a major blow to Trump’s attempts to restrict mail-in voting before the November midterm elections, denying his request to lift an order halting the divisive plan.
Two of the six conservative judges on the ninemember panel dissented.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a concurring opinion with the majority, said Trump’s plan may ultimately be legal in the long run, but ‘state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.
Several states, including North Carolina, have already begun sending mail-in ballots to voters.
Trump signed an executive order in March seeking to restrict mail-in voting, saying it is vulnerable to fraud.
Democratic-led states sued the administration on grounds that under the US Constitution, states and not the federal government -retain broad control over the administration of elections.-Agencies