Democrats likely agree with President Donald Trump’s assessment that the Supreme Court’s “inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History.”
The president’s dire complaint, lodged on his Truth Social account Tuesday morning, followed Monday night’s high court rejection of his desired mail ballot restrictions for the midterm elections.
“Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court,” began the post from the beneficiary of the court’s 2024 ruling in Trump v. United States that granted him broad criminal immunity.
Monday night’s order in the mail voting litigation was not Trump’s or his administration’s first significant Supreme Court loss, as his post reminded readers in resurfacing his standing complaints about his tariffs and birthright citizenship defeats this term.
But those significant rulings stand in contrast to the great many wins the court has granted Trump and the GOP. This term alone — the same term that produced the tariffs and citizenship rulings — the Republican-appointed majority has issued major decisions backing the party on presidential power, voting rights, immigration and campaign finance, to name only a recent handful.
And though the justices are off the bench for the summer, that hasn’t stopped them from continuing to side with Trump and the GOP. Just a couple of weeks ago, a five-justice Republican-appointed majority greenlit his White House ballroom construction, in a case that even Chief Justice John Roberts, who has led some of the court’s broadest pronouncements of presidential power, could not abide.
The lineup from the ballroom case is especially significant in light of the president’s social media complaint that “these are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves.” The dramatic framing apparently referred to his three appointees — Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — who refused to join Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito in dissent Monday night (which earned the duo praise as “legends” in Trump’s post).
Per the president’s social media critique, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett have apparently shed their “original selves” in the days since. Trump didn’t even credit Kavanaugh for writing in his concurring opinion Monday that he thought the administration might have a winning argument on mail ballot restrictions in the end, just not right now for the midterms.
Nor did Trump credit the court’s ruling earlier this month that granted emergency relief for Republicans on campaign advertising rates ahead of the midterms.
“It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country’s history,” the president posted, adding, “It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court — it will likely cost me dearly for years to come — but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love!”
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