On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump slammed his own picks for the Supreme Court, condemning them as both cowardly and "highly political." Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett "are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court," he wrote on Truth Social. "They are merely a shell of their original selves."
The immediate impetus for that rant was the Supreme Court's rejection of the Trump administration's application for an emergency stay. Trump wanted the Court to block a preliminary injunction against implementation of a U.S. Postal Service plan to screen mail-in ballots, the result of an executive order he issued in March. That plan was necessary, he said, as "a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting 'disaster,' which is a laughing stock all over the World." But while he was on the subject of "horrible" Supreme Court decisions, he reiterated his complaints about its rulings against his "emergency" tariffs and his attempt to restrict birthright citizenship.
