US President: Supreme Court's decision to reject restrictions on mail-in voting is "misguided"
Washington, Sept 15 (KUNA) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked the Supreme Court’s decision to refuse to restrict mail-in voting in the November midterm elections, describing it as “terrible” and “politicized.” The remarks came in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s temporary rejection of an order issued late Monday evening that had been requested by his administration to limit mail-in voting in the upcoming November midterms.
Trump wrote in his post: “Republicans have just received another bad decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. The judicial system took far too long to issue this ruling, which it attributed – in part – to time constraints in implementing a solution to the completely corrupt and out-of-control mail-in voting disaster, which has become a global laughingstock, as we remain the only country forced to endure such a devastating ‘scam’ on the nation.”
He praised the opposition of two Supreme Court justices to the ruling, which he described as “terrible and highly politicized,” and which he said would facilitate “fraud in mail-in ballots,” noting that the door is now wide open for such practices. He affirmed that the Supreme Court “has truly betrayed our country,” adding that it had “succumbed to pressure and blackmail from the radical left to make decisions that have set America back at least 100 years.”
In a brief order published by U.S. media late Monday, the Supreme Court stated that “the government is unlikely to succeed in its challenge to the preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court in Boston, which prevents the Postal Service from implementing these restrictive measures in the November elections nationwide.”
The justices had rejected the Justice Department’s request to overturn the ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Boston, which barred the Postal Service from applying these measures pending the resolution of legal appeals filed by several states and voting rights groups.
The Supreme Court’s decision comes less than two months before Election Day for the midterms, which will determine which party will control both chambers of Congress, with Republicans holding narrow majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. (End) R.S.R./A.M.S.
