Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Tuesday morning after Donald Trump was dealt a huge blow by the court, and is going around telling anyone who will listen that the AI apocalypse is a hoax. Time to worry.
DENIED!: Our top story is the Supreme Court’s bombshell denial of Trump’s assault on voting by mail.
On Monday night, the court released an unsigned order denying the Postal Service’s application for a stay that would have allowed Trump’s vote-by-mail restrictions to go into effect for the midterms.
In a whopping 7 to 2 decision, the justices wrote:
“The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge to the District Court’s preliminary injunction. And the equitable factors applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court do not favor a stay.”
The dissenting votes were dead-enders Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas, because of course.
That means that all of Trump’s appointees — Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh — voted against him. Ouch!
Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a consolation-prize concurrence that “there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority,” but that quote “ applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious.”
SAD!
Kettle Says What: Trump — who routinely votes by mail — reacted to the news Tuesday morning by lashing out in a nearly 500-word Truth Social rant.
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. Justices Alito and Thomas, legends both, strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling. It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left “Dumocrats,” on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do - And now they have an open field to do so! The Supreme Court has really let our Country down! Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats, and are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America. Their horrible decision on Tariffs will be costing the U.S.A., for many years to come, Trillions and Trillions of Dollars. They didn’t even state, “money paid does not have to be paid back,” much to the benefit of entities that truly hate our Country, and have been RIPPING IT OFF FOR YEARS, unnecessarily costing us, immediately, Billions of Dollars. Likewise, the Supreme Court’s Decision on Birthright Citizenship is a complete and total disaster for America, and has already led to massive corruption with respect to “citizenship” in our Country. The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does - It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm! The Court’s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History. This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years. 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 that are of such magnitude that it won’t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal. It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country’s history. It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court - it will likely cost me dearly for years to come - but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love! Thank you for your attention to this very important matter. God bless the U.S.A. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Not So Fast: But before we hand out any trophies, Judge Michael Luttig had a sobering assessment of the Court’s effect on the midterms up to this point, in an interview hours before the decision came out.
The damage that the Supreme Court has done already, with respect to the midterm elections, Jim, is unforgivable.
AI AI Uh-Oh: Top experts at AI companies have spent the week warning that their technology could end up killing every human being on Earth, with one researcher — Anthropic’s Evan Hubinger — writing that ”We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is greater than 10% within the next decade.”
Trump, who has been a consistent AI cheerleader and slop merchant, reacted to the concerns by writing “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”
But the warnings have reached such a fever pitch that Trump began dropping Truth Social posts calling the concerns a “HOAX!” — and then he called in to a tech summit to put his two cents in.
Trump: And I’m telling you it’s all a hoax. The data centers are great, and they make people wealthy, and they make states wealthy, and it’s the oil of the next twenty, twenty-five years. It’s bigger than the internet, and the AI, you know, much more so.
And they’re just playing right into the hands of a lot of people that don’t want to see it happen, and that could be political people, and it could also be China. And we’re not gonna let that happen.
…The robots aren’t gonna be taking over the world, and that’s not gonna happen.
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