Why are election officials in the US preparing for chaos before midterms?
Trump lashes out at justices who rejected his federal mail ballot plan, raising questions on his next electoral moves.
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court for rejecting his push to curb mail-in voting, raising fears that the US president might use federal powers to meddle in November’s midterm elections.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,” the president lashed out after the court verdict on Monday. The justices “are merely a shell of their original selves, a court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings”.
The ruling means states can continue administering mail-in voting under their existing procedures. Mail-in and absentee ballots have been used in the United States for decades and now account for roughly a third of votes cast nationwide.
Raskin described Trump’s attempt to use the US Postal Service to regulate mailed ballots as “a naked power grab”, accusing the president of seeking “to inject confusion and chaos into our elections in a last-ditch effort to keep his party in power”.