Judge allows Trump to implement mail-in voting executive order

[Harry Dresden]

State's rights don't have anything to do with federal elections. President Trump’s March 31, 2026, executive order (“Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections”) is explicitly aimed at federal elections (such as presidential and congressional races).

The executive order relies on the administration's authority over federal agencies—specifically the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

the president does not run the PO...

 

[Lesh]

This will be overturned. There is no law that allows such an EO.

And, to you who are crying: there is no evidence at all of ANY election fraud.

Any measurable voter fraud

There’s always a handful that affects nothing

 

[22lcidw]

That was Congress asking for an injunction because the Constitution gives the right to make voting laws to Congress. The Executive can't alter the laws with EO's. The are no national voter lists in this federation.

A coalition of Democratic states brought a similar lawsuit challenging the executive order in federal court in Boston. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama, is due to hear arguments in that case on June 2.

"The American election system is designed to be run by states and localities, not the federal government, and a thicket of federal and state privacy laws makes creating such a list legally and technically complex. Further, Congress has never mandated the creation of a national voter list for federal elections, which would likely take years or even decades to implement."

Why Doesn’t the U.S. Have a National Voter List? • Bipartisan Policy Center

A flurry of recent activity has put voter registration in the national spotlight. Congress has been debating voter registration and eligibility legislation, and President Trump—who in February called to “nationalize the voting”—signed an executive order that would involve the federal government...

bipartisanpolicy.org

We all know that come of your areas need toe nuked. This will avoid the extermination of a hundred million Americans when you take over. So, twenty or thirty million killed with nukes is better than that.

 

[Failzero]

Too big to rig worked

 

[Failzero]

the president does not run the PO...

The State does not supersede the US Constitution

 

[Failzero]

the president does not run the PO...

It’s called the USPS for a reason

 

[Harry Dresden]

It’s called the USPS for a reason

the president does not run the PO.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

The State does not supersede the US Constitution

who said they did?...

 

[Failzero]

who said they did?...

So the President is in charge of the Guy in Charge of the USPS ?

 

[1srelluc]

Expressly requested by the voter. Every election

No.

"For cause" worked fine for years.

 

[Harry Dresden]

So the President is in charge of the Guy in Charge of the USPS ?

no the board of governors run the PO.....the PMG works for them....

 

[1srelluc]

the president does not run the PO...

But he can put forth "suggestions" to the PMG.

 

[Independent thinker]

MSN

May 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday declined to block President Donald Trump's executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting in a loss for the Democratic Party, whose lawyers argued that it could disenfranchise millions of voters.

The decision comes as Trump's Republicans are locked in a tight battle to keep control of both houses of the U.S. Congress in the November midterm elections. Trump has for years pushed the false claim that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voter fraud and has criticized voting by mail.

The executive order signed by Trump on March 31 directed his administration to compile a list of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state and to use federal data to help state election officials verify who is eligible to vote.

It also required the U.S. Postal Service to only deliver ballots to voters on each state's approved mail-in ballot list, and required states to preserve election-related records for five years.

In rejecting a request by plaintiffs including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York that he issue a preliminary injunction blocking the measure, Washington-based U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols wrote that the Democrats had brought the case too early because the government had not yet produced any flawed citizenship lists and the Postal Service had not yet implemented any new rules.

"Given that the Executive Order does not command Plaintiffs to do anything, and that no agency has yet acted pursuant to the Order in a way that could harm Plaintiffs, they have not suffered any harm at present," wrote Nichols, who was appointed by Trump during his first term.

The judge said the Democrats could ask for an injunction again after federal agencies took steps to implement the executive order.

Good, mass mail-in voting is a travesty to fair elections.....Any mail-in ballots should be absentee and "for cause".

Trump may have to do an additional executive order to purge voting rolls of dead people. Sounds like a no brainer but since Minnesota is fighting that, I guess we need an order for that.

 

[Harry Dresden]

But he can put forth "suggestions" to the PMG.

the PMG cant do anything without his bosses giving the thumbs up...

 

[1srelluc]

the PMG cant do anything without his bosses giving the thumbs up...

Read what I typed again.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Read what I typed again.

it doesnt matter....the PMG cant do anything major without the board of governors oking it...and it may have to go through a couple of committees too...

 

[BlindBoo]

Expressly requested by the voter. Every election

There is nothing in the Constitution that prohibits States from mailing every registered voter in their state a mail in ballot. Congress has made no law prohibiting any state from mailing every single registered voter a ballot. Benedict Donald can not imposed the requirement on any state with a Kingly decree either.

 

[1srelluc]

it doesnt matter....the PMG cant do anything major without the board of governors oking it...and it may have to go through a couple of committees too...

LOL....Do they have a slacker union too?

 

[BlindBoo]

We all know that come of your areas need toe nuked. This will avoid the extermination of a hundred million Americans when you take over. So, twenty or thirty million killed with nukes is better than that.

Why do you think South Louisiana needs to be nuked? Wow. Just wow. From illegal EO's by Benedict Donald, to pole vaulting to exterminating of hundreds of million of Americans when [I'm not sure who] takes over?

Remember Kids. Stay off drugs and stay in school!

 

[my2¢]

The executive order signed by Trump on March 31 directed his administration to compile a list of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state and to use federal data to help state election officials verify who is eligible to vote.

It also required the U.S. Postal Service to only deliver ballots to voters on each state's approved mail-in ballot list, and required states to preserve election-related records for five years.

It has nothing to do with supporting fraud; it does have everything to do with states' rights in the Constitution.

The executive order does not require states to take any action based on the lists that they receive, while the U.S. Postal Service lists are coming from the states. It's no big deal.