Trump Criticizes His Supreme Court Picks Over Mail-In Ballot Ruling

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President Donald Trump launched a missive against the Supreme Court on Tuesday after it blocked his Administration’s plan to implement changes to mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms.In a lengthy post on his social media platform Truth Social, the President took aim at unnamed “Certain Justices” whom he claimed were “petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats,” adding: “These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves.”Trump appointed three Justices to the court—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—during his first term. With the court handing Trump a handful of legal victories since, his second-term Administration sought an emergency allowance for restrictions on mailed ballots, arguing that such action is necessary to curb electoral fraud—the President’s past claims of widespread electoral fraud have been repeatedly debunked.But on Monday, the Supreme Court, in a one-paragraph unsigned order, denied Trump’s bid. The court argued that Trump is likely to lose in court over its push for last-minute changes: Kavanaugh, concurring with the majority, wrote separately that,...

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