Trump goes after Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots
WASHINGTON, (AP):- President Donald Trump denounced the Supreme Court on Tuesday after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterm elections, saying justices who opposed him are “not the people I interviewed.”
The Trump administration had made a last-minute push to empower the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver ballots in states that didn’t submit a list of eligible voters or adopt a uniform envelope style. Election officials argued that an overhaul of voting by mail wasn’t necessary or even possible to implement as balloting begins in November’s elections.
FBI Director Kash Patel is testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, where he’s so far defended the bureau’s loose hiring requirements regarding prostitution and bestiality. Patel said the changes were meant to protect people forced into such acts from automatic disqualification. The Republican-led panel has tried to keep the focus on violent crime and drug trafficking, while Democrats have seized on the tumult inside the bureau.
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to lift its short-term interest rate Wednesday for the first time in three years to fight stubbornly high inflation, despite Trump’s lobbying for a rate cut.
