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… </script></div></div></div><div class="PageBuilder-containerWidth100 PageBuilder-pageRow"><div class="PageBuilder-col-full PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article"><div id="RegularArticle-ArticleHeader-2" data-test="articleHeader-0" data-analytics="RegularArticle-articleHeader-2-0"><header class="ArticleHeader-articleHeader" id="main-article-header"><div class="ArticleHeader-headerContentContainer" data-header-content-container="true"><div class="ArticleHeader-wrapperHeroNoImage ArticleHeader-wrapperHero ArticleHeader-wrapper ArticleHeader-wrapperNoImage"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/politics/" class="ArticleHeader-eyebrow">Politics &amp; Policy</a><div><h1 class="ArticleHeader-headline">Trump calls Supreme Court mail ballot ruling &#x27;big loss for Republicans&#x27;</h1></div><div class="ArticleHeader-timeHidden"><time data-testid="published-timestamp" dateTime="2026-09-15T13:35:38+0000" itemProp="datePublished">Published Tue, Sep 15 2026<span class="ArticleHeader-datetimeDivider"></span>9:35 AM EDT</time><span class="ArticleHeader-timestampDivider"></span><time data-testid="lastpublished-timestamp" dateTime="2026-09-15T15:37:17+0000">Updated 26 Min Ago</time></div></div><div class="ArticleHeader-authorAndShareInline"><div class="ArticleHeader-authorContainer ArticleHeader-authorContainerWithWatchLive"><div class="ArticleHeader-author"><div class="Author-author"><div class="Author-authorInfo"><img class="Author-authorPortrait" style="border:0" src="https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/105386930-1533817297076img_2358.jpg?v=1533817368&amp;w=60&amp;h=60&amp;ffmt=webp" alt="thumbnail"/><div class="Author-authorNameAndSocial"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/dan-mangan/" class="Author-authorName">Dan Mangan<span class="Author-authorUnderline"></span></a><a href="https://linkedin.com/in/danmangancnbc/" class="Author-authorTwitter" target="_blank">@in/danmangancnbc/</a><a href="https://twitter.com/@_DanMangan" class="Author-authorTwitter" target="_blank">@_DanMangan</a></div></div></div></div></div><span><a href="/live-tv/" class="WatchLive-container">WATCH LIVE</a></span></div></div></header></div></div></div><div class="PageBuilder-containerFluidWidths PageBuilder-pageRow"><div class="PageBuilder-col-9 PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article"><div class="RenderKeyPoints-keyPoints" id="RegularArticle-KeyPoints-4" data-test="keyPoints-1" data-analytics="RegularArticle-keyPoints-4-1"><div class="RenderKeyPoints-wrapper"><div class="RenderKeyPoints-header">Key Points</div><div class="RenderKeyPoints-list"><div><div class="group"><ul><li>President Donald Trump condemned the Supreme Court for a decision that blocks a new U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots from being used for November&#x27;s midterm elections.</li><li>&quot;It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left &#x27;Dumocrats,&#x27; on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do,&quot; Trump said in a Truth Social post.</li><li>The upcoming elections will determine whether Republicans or Democrats will control both chambers of Congress.</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ArticleBody-articleBody" id="RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5" data-module="ArticleBody" data-test="articleBody-2" data-analytics="RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2"><span class="HighlightShare-hidden" style="top:0;left:0"></span><div class="ArticleBody-meteredPaywallPreview"><div class="InlineImage-imageEmbed" id="ArticleBody-InlineImage-108357942" data-test="InlineImage"><div class="InlineImage-wrapper"><div class="InlineImage-imagePlaceholder" style="padding-bottom:55.55555555555556%"><div style="height:100%" class="lazyload-placeholder"></div></div><div><div class="InlineImage-imageEmbedCaption">US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with travel industry executives in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 2, 2026. </div><div class="InlineImage-imageEmbedCredit">Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images</div></div></div></div><div class="group"><p>President <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/">Donald Trump</a> on Tuesday blasted the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots-midterms.html">Supreme Court</a> for blocking a new controversial <a href="https://www.usps.com/" target="_blank">U.S. Postal Service</a> rule on <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/trump-supreme-court-mail-in-voting-restrictions.html">mail-in ballots</a> from being used for the upcoming <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/trump-super-pac-midterms-no-going-back-pac.html">midterm elections</a> after critics warned it would make voting difficult for many people.</p><p>&quot;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 &#x27;disaster,&#x27;&quot; Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.</p><div style="height:100%" class="lazyload-placeholder"></div><p>&quot;It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left &#x27;Dumocrats,&#x27; on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do,&quot; Trump said, a day after the Supreme Court decision.</p><p>Trump&#x27;s fellow Republicans are trying to retain their slim majorities in both chambers of Congress in November&#x27;s elections.</p><p>Trump also harshly criticized his three Supreme Court appointees for apparently joining with all three liberal justices, plus Chief Justice John Roberts, on Monday in leaving in place a Boston federal district court judge&#x27;s injunction preventing the Postal Service rule from being applied to ballots mailed in for November&#x27;s elections.</p><p>&quot;These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves, a Court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings,&quot; Trump wrote in his post.</p></div><div class="group"><div class="RelatedContent-relatedContent" id="RegularArticle-RelatedContent-1"><div class="RelatedContent-container"><div class="RelatedContent-nonCollapsibleContent"><h2 class="RelatedContent-header">Read more CNBC politics and policy coverage</h2><div class="group"><ul><li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/kevin-warsh-fed-cpi-inflation-rate-hike-analysis.html">Analysis: Hot inflation data sets up a Fed rate hike. 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Kavanaugh separately agreed the order was unlawful, but because it conflicted with a federal law, not on the constitutional grounds cited by the majority.</p><p>In his post Tuesday, Trump noted both the tariff and birthright citizenship rulings.</p><p>&quot;Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats, and are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America,&quot; the president wrote. &quot;Their horrible decision on Tariffs will be costing the U.S.A., for many years to come, Trillions and Trillions of Dollars.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Likewise, the Supreme Court&#x27;s Decision on Birthright Citizenship is a complete and total disaster for America, and has already led to massive corruption with respect to &#x27;citizenship&#x27; in our Country,&quot; Trump said.</p><p>Monday&#x27;s majority ruling by the Supreme Court was unsigned, and only Kavanaugh wrote a separate, brief concurrence. The majority in its decision said the Trump administration &quot;is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the&quot; preliminary injunction</p><p>The fact that only two conservative justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, publicly dissented implies a 7-2 vote to block the Postal Service rule.</p><p>Trump praised Alito and Thomas for their dissent, calling them &quot;legends.&quot;</p><p>The Postal Service rule, which was issued in late August, implemented an executive order on mail-in ballots issued by Trump in March.</p><p>The rule set new standards for ballot envelopes and required states to enter information about voters and ballot envelopes into a Postal Service portal.</p></div></div><div id="ArticleBody-MobileAdhesion" class="MobileAdhesion-container" data-module="mps-slot"></div><div class="ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer" data-module="GooglePreferredSource" data-id="RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5"><div class="ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceBorder"></div><a href="https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=https://www.cnbc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.</a></div></div></div><div class="SidebarArticle-sidebar PageBuilder-sidebar" data-test="SidebarArticle"><div class="SidebarArticle-sticky" style="top:70px"><div></div><div></div><div style="margin-top:0px"></div><div><div style="height:100%" class="lazyload-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="PageBuilder-containerFluidWidths PageBuilder-pageRow"><div class="PageBuilder-col-9 PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article"></div></div><div class="PageBuilder-containerFluidWidths PageBuilder-pageRow"><div class="PageBuilder-col-12 PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article"><div style="height:100%" class="lazyload-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="MobileAdhesion-Homepage" class="MobileAdhesion-container" data-module="mps-slot"></div><footer id="GlobalFooter" class="CNBCFooter-footer" data-mini-video-player-dont-scroll-beyond-here="true" data-test="GlobalFooter" data-analytics="RegularArticle-GlobalFooter"><div class="CNBCFooter-wrapper"><div><a href="//www.cnbc.com" class="CNBCFooter-logo" target="_self"><img src="https://static-redesign.cnbcfm.com/dist/d6085c9e81f4d7365c8d.svg" class="CNBCFooter-logoImg CNBCFooter-versantLogo" alt="CNBC logo"/></a></div><ul class="CNBCFooter-social"><li class="CNBCFooter-socialItem"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/" class="icon-social_facebook" target="_blank" aria-label="facebook"></a></li><li class="CNBCFooter-socialItem"><a href="https://www.twitter.com/cnbc/" class="icon-social_twitter" target="_blank" aria-label="twitter"></a></li><li class="CNBCFooter-socialItem"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/cnbc/" class="icon-social_linkedin" target="_blank" aria-label="linkedin"></a></li><li class="CNBCFooter-socialItem"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/cnbc/" class="icon-social_instagram" target="_blank" aria-label="instagram"></a></li><li class="CNBCFooter-socialItem"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/cnbc/" class="icon-social_youtube" target="_blank" aria-label="youtube"></a></li><li class="CNBCFooter-socialItem"><a href="https://apple.news/T3OtoXcxtRkuHRkM7SpFP_Q" class="icon-social_apple_news" target="_blank" aria-label="apple_news"></a></li><li class="CNBCFooter-socialItem"><a href="/rss-feeds/" class="icon-social_rss" target="_blank" aria-label="rss"></a></li></ul><div class="CNBCFooter-border"></div><ul class="CNBCFooter-list"><li class="CNBCFooter-listItem"><a href="/application/pro/?__source=pro|globalfooter" target="_self">Subscribe to CNBC PRO</a></li><li class="CNBCFooter-listItem"><a href="/investingclub/subscribe?__source=investingclub|globalfooter" target="_self">Subscribe to Investing Club</a></li><li class="CNBCFooter-listItem"><a href="/cnbc-reprints/" target="_self">Licensing &amp; 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