'Illegal effort to consolidate his nonexistent power': States urge court to reject Trump executive order
Source: Law & Crime
May 30th, 2025, 4:53 pm
Two states in the Pacific Northwest are imploring a federal court to keep President Donald Trump and his administration from interfering with their long-standing election laws.
On March 25, the 45th and 47th president issued Executive Order 14248, titled: “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.” The order broadly seeks to reshape how elections are administered in the country by, among other things, purporting to enforce a requirement that all voters prove their citizenship by way of formal documentation and by putting a stop to vote-by-mail systems that count ballots postmarked by, but received after, Election Day.
In Oregon and Washington, the default voting mechanism is a postal ballot; such vote-by-mail systems have been in place for decades.
On Thursday, in a 35-page motion for partial summary judgment, the states asked U.S. District Judge John H. Chun, a Joe Biden appointee, to permanently enjoin multiple sections of Trump’s order as unconstitutional and ultra vires, or, beyond the president’s power.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/illegal-effort-to-consolidate-his-nonexistent-power-states-urge-court-to-reject-trump-executive-order-targeting-vote-by-mail-systems/
Full headline: ‘Illegal effort to consolidate his nonexistent power’: States urge court to reject Trump executive order targeting vote-by-mail systems
Link to MOTION (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25957420-washington-v-trump-msj/
Link to MOTION (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25957420/washington-v-trump-msj.pdf
= new reply since forum marked as read
