BREAKING: 23 States Sue Trump Over Executive Order Stripping Americans’ Mail-In Voting Rights
A coalition of 23 states and the District of Columbia filed a federal lawsuit against Donald Trump over an executive order that legal experts say blatantly violates the Constitution by restricting Americans’ access to mail-in voting.
The order, signed this week, bars the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots to anyone not appearing on a federally pre-approved list compiled by the USPS itself. Trump has long pushed the debunked claim that mail-in voting is riddled with fraud, despite zero credible evidence and the fact that he himself regularly votes by mail.
But the order goes even further. It directs the federal government to build its own national voter database in each state, to be handed over to state election officials 60 days before every federal election. States have managed their own voter rolls for centuries. Now Trump wants the Department of Homeland Security running that process. The same DHS that has been caught lying to federal judges. The same department whose agents killed two Americans during immigration enforcement operations earlier this year.
The lawsuit was filed in Massachusetts District Court. Attorneys general from the coalition argue the president has zero constitutional authority to dictate who gets to vote by mail or to override state election administration with a federal list.
Courts have already blocked several of Trump’s earlier voting-related orders. This one appears headed for the same fate..