Trump fires back after Supreme Court deals major setback 7 weeks ahead of midterms

Fox News anchor Will Cain.

The Supreme Court dealt the Trump administration a significant blow on Monday just seven weeks before the midterm elections, agreeing with a federal judge in Boston who previously overruled the administration's efforts to place tougher restrictions on mail-in ballots, and on Tuesday, Trump fired back at the court's ruling. 

“The 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,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years.”

The high court gave no official count on how individual justices ruled, but Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas publicly dissented, giving some indication of how the nine votes broke down. 

In his dissent, Alito argued some of the parties that have been challenging the Trump administration in court on this issued have no legal standing to sue, according to SCOTUS Blog. He added that "the remainder are pursuing a claim that this Court has recently called a ‘Hail Mary pass’ that ‘rarely succeeds.’” 

According to The Associated Press, Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the majority, but in his written opinion indicated he might be open to siding with the Trump administration if the issue is argued in front of the Supreme Court again.

The ruling means requirements for the U.S. Postal Service laid out by Trump in an executive order earlier this will will no longer go into effect before the pivotal midterm elections. Trump's order had called for the DHS to coordinate with the states on lists of eligible voters in an effort to weed out non-citizens from casting ballots. Another requirement called for the Postal Service to use uniform envelopes with unique bar codes for mail-in ballots. None of that will proceed for November's midterm elections after the Supreme Court's ruling.

According to The Associated Press, mail-in voting is already underway in Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Trump has emphasized bolstering the integrity of U.S. elections, even giving a prime-time address to the nation over the summer about what his administration was doing to curtail voter fraud. That speech was boycotted by some of the major TV networks.

"These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court," Trump also said in his post on social media. "They are merely a shell of their original selves, a Court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won’t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal."

Trump went on to say, "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."

For more on the measures the Supreme Court rejected with Monday's ruling, watch the video below.