Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Mail Voting Restrictions, Sparking Controversy

2:09 PM ETDeveloping

Politics Desk

In Short: The Supreme Court has rejected President Trump's efforts to tighten mail-in voting rules, dealing a blow to his campaign ahead of the midterm elections.

On Monday, the conservative-majority Supreme Court refused to lift an order by US District Judge Indira Talwani that blocked Trump's executive order on mail-in voting, dealing a setback to his efforts to restrict this method of voting before the November midterm elections.

The postal agency adopted the rule after Trump signed an executive order in March, aiming to tighten rules around mail-in voting. Under this measure, states were required to send the Postal Service a list of recipients and use ballot mail envelopes previously approved by the agency.

In a recent decision, the court said it was 'unlikely to succeed on the merits' of the challenge, with Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting, citing issues with standing and the court's recent stance on the matter.

President Trump expressed his dissatisfaction with the court's rulings this year, suggesting without evidence that the three justices he appointed are being controlled by the left. He took to Truth Social to criticize the court for its latest 'bad decision' and accused it of being part of a 'Nation Destroying SCAM' regarding mail-in voting.

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Shortly after, the Trump administration issued an emergency request to the Supreme Court urging it to allow an “important federal policy to protect the mails from being used to commit voter fraud”.
In late August, the Supreme Court had temporarily allowed Trump to move ahead with his executive order on procedural grounds, but did not rule on the legality of the plan.
Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, with Alito writing that some plaintiffs lacked standing while the rest were pursuing a claim the court had recently called a “Hail Mary pass”.
What they're saying: "These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Zoom in: Trump unloaded on the court for striking down his birthright citizenship policy, in which the justices upheld that those born on American soil are citizens.
Zoom out: Despite a few blockbuster cases in which the court has ruled against the president's policies, SCOTUS has overwhelmingly ruled in Trump's favor and has taken up a significant number of his administration's cases through its emergency, or "shadow," docket.
Zoom in: The court has become a bit of a lightning rod, with just 33% of Americans approving of the job it's doing — a record low.
Trump took to Truth Social to hammer the court for its latest “bad decision” after the ruling came down on Monday: Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting “disaster,” which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM.

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