Thursday, September 17, 2026

Trump blasts Supreme Court: ‘You’ve let America down’

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US President Donald Trump has suffered a Supreme Court setback after the justices blocked his administration from introducing new safeguards for mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections.

The court allowed a federal injunction against the US Postal Service measures to remain in place, preventing the administration from immediately implementing rules Trump argues would strengthen ballot security and help ensure postal votes are issued only to eligible voters.

Trump slammed the outcome, describing it as another damaging decision for Republicans and accusing the Supreme Court of failing to support measures he said were necessary to protect the integrity of American elections.

The president’s March executive order instructed the USPS to introduce additional controls over election mail, including unique barcodes on postal-ballot envelopes and an information-sharing system allowing election authorities to provide data concerning voters receiving mail ballots.



The administration has defended the measures as a legitimate exercise of federal authority over the postal system, arguing that states choosing to use the US mail for elections cannot simultaneously insist that election material is beyond USPS regulation.

The proposals nevertheless encountered strong opposition from Democratic-led states and voting-rights organisations, which argued that introducing substantial procedural changes shortly before an election could cause disruption and prevent legitimate votes from being counted.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the majority in leaving the injunction intact for the 2026 elections, but his reasoning provided some encouragement for the administration’s broader legal position. He wrote that there was “at least a fair prospect” that the final USPS rule falls within the agency’s statutory authority, while concluding that implementing it during the current election cycle would be premature.

Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas went further, dissenting from the decision and suggesting that the underlying legal challenge to Trump’s policy was ultimately unlikely to succeed.

Several Republican-led states have also supported the administration’s position. At the same time, some Republican election officials warned that imposing major procedural changes when ballots and election materials had already been prepared could create practical difficulties regardless of the merits of the policy itself.

The dispute therefore remains alive. Rather than definitively finding Trump’s proposed safeguards unlawful, the Supreme Court has effectively prevented their introduction immediately before the midterms while the underlying litigation continues.

Trump responded by saying the Supreme Court had “really let our Country down” and criticising a series of recent decisions against his administration.

The president has made tightening mail-in voting procedures a major election-integrity priority, maintaining that postal voting requires stronger protections against ineligible participation and other potential abuses.

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    • Yes but the question remains is he a proselyte convert or full blown?
      Two fold more the child of Hell
      That is twice as bad as a Jew
      Matthew 23:15

  1. THE MOST SAFE AND SECURE ELECTION IN HISTORY ONE MUST ASK WAS COVID PART OF THE STEAL OF THE 2020 AMERICAN ELECTION TO INFORCE MAIL INVOTING THEN WE MUST LOOK WOULD THEY BE WILLING TO KILL AND INJURE MILLIONS TO OVER THROW TRUMP IF SO ITS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND THEN USES THE MEDIA TO INDUCE TDS TRUMP DERANGMENT SYNDROME SO THEY CANT SEE WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT IN FRONT OF THERE EYES BUT OF COURSE ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY THEORY 🤔
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    A court-approved forensic examination of Dominion Voting Systems concluded that the system was designed to manipulate election outcomes, overthrow governments, and facilitate the overthrow of the United States government on November 3, 2020.

    A forensic examination concluded that Dominion Voting Systems rigged the 2020 Michigan presidential election and covered it up by manually deleting the results of the 2020 election.

    “The Antrim County computer system maintains records of the adjudication process for previous elections, but records for the 2020 election were deleted.”

    “We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail.”

    “The Federal Election Commission allows a maximum error rate of just 0.0008% for computerized voting systems. The error rate of Dominion voting systems, at a shocking 68.05%, is 85,000 times higher than the threshold.”

  2. If you can’t stomach vile disgusting arsehole people like slimy fraudulent scamming lying sack of strutting warpig sh*t punk trump or scum netanyahu or a hundred other similar egotistic power-tripping sh*thead hitlers – then the scurrying low-IQ trump boot-licking idiot-brigade will call you “deranged” The fkn clueless blinkered stupidity of these low-IQ trump bootlickers is beyond belief

  3. Anonymous 12.34pm 16th Sept.
    You have made a valuable contribution to this story. I’ve usually given up reading the idiot comments where the queers come out to play with their mindless and unrelated attacks on Jews. Yours however is thoughtful. Those poor souls that allow the corrupt MSM to shape their opinions feel duty bound to share their deranged minds.
    The 2020 election was well and truely rigged against Trump. The Democrats can’t win without cheating. Whilst the 85% of the US public demand voter ID, 99% of the house democrats have rejected it. Mail in ballots, shonky Dominion voting machines screwed the scrum spectacularly. The corruption is beyond belief. Only deluded idiots would state otherwise. Bring it on halfwits.

  4. fraudulent rabid-left democrat snakes versus fraudulent rabid-right republican snakes, both mobs being establishment globalist warpig arseholes fighting each other in their stinking foul serpent-pit of lies, wars, genocide, murder, elitism and corruption.
    And the stupid stupid stupid idiot public STILL f*cking tick their stupid stupid stupid mindwashed votes for one or the other…
    And you wonder why now the whole world has become a f*cked-up circus of bullsh*t

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