High court rejected Trump’s third bid to enforce voting restrictions, 7-2

In a social media post Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump called the U.S. mail-in voting system a “Nation Destroying SCAM” and said Republicans “just got another bad decision” about the Supreme Court’s Monday ruling against his executive order restricting mail-in voting.

“Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting ‘disaster,’ which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM,” Trump posted.

The Supreme Court had ruled 7-2 on Monday, rejecting Trump’s third bid to allow his executive order restricting mail-in voting to take effect. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.

The court rejected an emergency application the Trump administration filed last week calling on the high court to block a lower court ruling against the voting restrictions. In its brief filed Monday, the court said the administration’s argument is “unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court’s preliminary injunction.”

In the same Tuesday morning post, Trump also criticized the Supreme Court for its decision to block him from ending birthright citizenship in the United States.

If Trump’s order had taken effect, it would have directed the U.S. Postal Service to withhold mail-in ballots in certain cases and added requirements for verifying voter eligibility and tracking ballots.

Voting rights advocates have argued that these restrictions could disenfranchise large swaths of voters. They have also warned that implementing such restrictions so quickly before November’s midterms would create additional challenges for voters and election administrators.

Conservatives hold a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court, and Trump has appointed three of the conservative justices: Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch.

Monday’s ruling marked the third rejection of the Trump administration’s emergency bid to allow the executive order restricting mail-in voting to take effect, with the District Court’s preliminary injunction against the order left in place ahead of November’s midterm elections.