Democratic leaders sue Trump admin over president's mail-in voting executive order

Democratic Party leaders sued the Trump administration Wednesday over President Donald Trump's executive order creating a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and restricting mail-in voting.

The Democratic leaders claimed the executive order, which Trump signed Tuesday, is an unconstitutional interference in state power to regulate elections and accused the president of trying to "rewrite election rules for his own perceived partisan advantage."

"Our Constitution's Framers anticipated this kind of desire for absolute power," the 64-page lawsuit reads. "They recognized the menace it would pose to ordered liberty and the ways in which it would corrode self-government like an acid. That careful division of authority has held fast against President Trump's attacks."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined the DNC, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Governors Association in the lawsuit, according to Politico.

The executive order directs the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Social Security Administration, to compile lists of eligible voters nationwide and seeks to block the U.S. Postal Service from delivering absentee ballots to voters not on state-approved rolls. 

The order also calls for mail-in ballot envelopes with unique tracking barcodes and threatens to withhold federal funding from states and localities that refuse to comply.

A group of Democrat-led states have also threatened to sue the Trump administration over the executive order, including Arizona, California and Maine.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.