Trump Attacks Supreme Court and Appointees After Mail Ballot Ruling, Calls Decision Big Loss for Republicans as Attorney General Todd Blanche Leads Rare Rose Garden Press Briefing on September 15

President Donald Trump condemned the Supreme Court on Tuesday September 15 for blocking a new US Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots from being used for November's midterm elections, calling it a big loss for Republicans and America itself and attacking the three justices he appointed to the court. In a Truth Social post, Trump said the ruling makes cheating by the Radical Left Dumocrats on mail-in ballots a much easier thing to do. Attacking the three justices he appointed, Trump said 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 a rare instance, Attorney General Todd Blanche led the White House press briefing on Monday in the Rose Garden, where he answered questions about the ruling. Trump praised only the two dissenters, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, calling them legends who went against what he termed a horrible, highly political ruling. The Supreme Court ruling marked the culmination of a monthslong legal battle over Trump's executive order issued in March directing the Postal Service to impose new restrictions on mail-in ballots. The unsigned majority ruling blocked the Postal Service from implementing the new rules for the November 3 midterm elections. Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, one of Trump's appointees, wrote a brief concurrence saying there is a fair prospect the Postal Service rule might ultimately be found legal but that applying it in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. Two federal judges had previously blocked the plan, with US District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts concluding in her 11-page decision that Trump's proposals were an unconstitutional attempt to usurp powers from the states over elections, writing that the court is unaware of