People fill their voting cards in the voting compartments at the Green Street Community Center in Concorde, New Hampsshire, on November 5, 2024.
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Nineteen states against President Donald Trump’s executive order to vote last week, saying it was a “unconstitutional attempt to control the elections” that would create barriers to vote that could improve millions.
the suitIt is the fourth legal challenge so far against the executive order, calling on the Federal Province Court in Massachusetts to prevent many executive order, in which lawyers argue “the rape of the constitutional authority of the states and seeks to amend the election law by Fiat.”
The lawsuit is filed by the general democratic lawyers from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Dilayer, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Men, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Rod Island, Vermont, and Wiscons.
“We are democracy – not ownership – and this executive is the seizure of authoritarian power,” New York Prosecutor Litia James said in a statement. “With this, this president gives the priority of his endeavor to obtain unrestricted power over the rights of the public and the will of the public.”
On March 25, Trump is seeking to make exciting changes in the administration to vote and elections and threaten that if the states do not agree that they may lose federal funds and face potential procedures from the American Public Prosecutor.
Among the changes, the executive order directs the Electoral Aid Committee – an independent party of the two parties – to rewrite the Federal voter registration model to include a condition that the Americans must show a copy of the proof of the citizenship document to register to vote in federal races. It also aims to prevent countries from the accounting polling account that is placed in a mark on the election day, but it arrives after the elections, which 18 countries currently allow.
The lawsuit argues that the president of these changes cannot be requested, because it is up to the states and Congress to determine how to hold elections. He also argues that the president cannot direct the Electoral Aid Committee to take measures because it is an independent body, and that adding evidence of citizenship requirements in the Federal Registration model is inconsistent with the current federal law.
The lawsuit says that the executive order “cultivates confusion and paves the way for chaos” as the states will have to transfer employees and resources towards implementing the new training, testing, teaching voters and coordination “at Breakneck” to comply with this matter – or risk losing the necessary funds if they do not comply.
Three other federal lawsuits have already been filed against the executive order. All of them are appointed to the local local court judge, Colin Kolar Koteli, in Washington, DC, who ordered Thursday to unify the three cases and will file together.
Two of these lawsuits were submitted by voting rights groups on behalf of organizations that help voters in registration. The other was brought by law firm in the democratic elections, Mark Elias, on behalf of the Democrats.
Trump said his executive order is necessary to stop fraud and “correct our elections.”
The wrong allegations of fraud in the elections have become part of the Trump brand, a most prominent example of his denial of his loss in the elections in 2020.
In the interest to the 2024 elections, Trump has strengthened a fake theory that Democrats will try to steal the elections by helping non -citizens vote in large numbers. There is no evidence of such a conspiracy.
In fact, previous audits showed that non -citizen voting cases are rare. Under the current federal law, voters must witness, under the penalty of perjury, that they are American citizens when they register to vote, and some states take additional steps to verify citizenship. Those who try to vote illegally can face prison and deportation.
However, in response to the lawsuit filed by the Democrats who unite the executive, the American Senator Mike Lee, R-UTAH, It was published to X.“Why do senior Democrats sue to allow non -citizens to vote in the US elections? You know why.” Billionaire Elon Musk, who owns X and is a great adviser to Trump, Share a post for me One word, “fraud”.
The lawsuits that challenge the executive order argue that the claim of voters to show a copy of evidence of the citizenship document for registration for voting will create an illegal burden on voters, and to contradict the Federal Law of 1993, which is the law of registration of national voters, which clarifies registration requirements.
More than 21 million American adults do not have evidence of a citizenship document such as a birth certificate or passport, or they have no easy access to one, according to a survey commissioned by voting rights advocates. Moreover, Trump’s executive order only calls a limited number of documents that can be used to prove citizenship: an American passport, military identity cards that include citizenship, or the government -released image identifier that recounts citizenship, although most states do not offer the identity of citizenship. It is still unclear whether birth certificates are a valid way to prove citizenship under the executive order. Only half of the Americans have a passport.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers support federal legislation that will change federal law to require citizenship to registration to vote. The leaders of the Republican Parliament said in a statement On Monday, the Law of the Entrepreneurship of American voters, known as the rescue law, “strengthens the executive measure of Trump’s President in the law to ensure the registration of voters and protect the votes of American voters.”
