President Donald Trump’s effort to curtail mail voting through executive order will likely be ruled illegal in at least one of several lawsuits filed this week, experts said, the latest in the president’s long-running effort to assert federal control of elections.
Democratic party groups and civil rights organizations have already filed three lawsuits over the executive order that Trump issued Tuesday entitled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections.”
The order dovetails with Trump’s broader year-long effort to assert more federal control over elections ahead of the midterms. It would enact changes to voting nationwide to follow what the president called the “unavoidable duty” to enforce federal law.
