{"id":20854,"date":"2026-04-02T02:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-sue-trump-administration-over-mail-in-voting-order\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:01:44","slug":"democrats-sue-trump-administration-over-mail-in-voting-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-sue-trump-administration-over-mail-in-voting-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats sue Trump administration over mail-in-voting order"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democratic Party leaders filed suit Wednesday to block President Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to limit voting by mail ahead of the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Democrats argue that an executive order Trump signed at the White House<\/a> on Tuesday, which creates an approved list of absentee voters among other actions, is an unconstitutional interference in the power of states to regulate elections.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> joined the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Governors Association in suing to challenge the order.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump possesses no such authority to order such a sweeping change to American elections,\u201d the suit argues<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for a comment on the lawsuit, but Trump dismissed the possibility of legal challenges to his order at the signing ceremony for the order.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how it can be challenged. … You may find a rogue judge,\u201d he told reporters in the Oval Office. \u201cYou get a lot of rogue judges, very bad, bad people, very bad judges. But that\u2019s the only way that can be changed, and hopefully we\u2019ll win an appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s executive order also threatens to withhold federal funds from states that don\u2019t comply and directs the attorney general to investigate anyone who wrongfully distributes mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest escalation in Trump\u2019s longstanding complaints about the way Americans vote as he pushes Congress to pass<\/a> the GOP-backed SAVE America Act, which has cleared the House but faces an uphill battle in the Senate. He has falsely claimed on several occasions that voting by mail is uniquely vulnerable to voter fraud, despite the fact that he cast his own ballot by that method<\/a> last week in a Florida congressional election.<\/p>\n

Republican states have pushed ahead with their own plans<\/a> to add citizenship requirements to voting laws, but the measures have also drawn swift legal challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democrats argued the executive order violates the First, Fourth, Fifth and Tenth Amendments and \u201cdramatically exceeds his highly limited constitutional and statutory authority when it comes to regulating elections.\u201d The lawsuit also argues that the Postal Service is being asked to go beyond its domain in building a list of eligible absentee voters.<\/p>\n

Democratic attorneys general have been bracing for the possibility<\/a> of the Trump administration interfering in this fall\u2019s midterm elections, huddling in hotel conference rooms and over Zoom calls to war-game strategies to push back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic Party leaders filed suit Wednesday to block President Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to limit voting by mail ahead of the midterm elections. Democrats argue that an executive order Trump signed at the White House on Tuesday, which creates an approved list of absentee voters among other actions, is an unconstitutional interference in the power of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}