President Trump’s latest executive order is unconstitutional but it’s also redundant.
As the New York Times reports, President Trump “signed an executive order on Tuesday that will require proof of U.S. citizenship on election forms.” Of course, non-citizens have never been allowed to vote, and the president has no authority over elections. The Constitution assigns that responsibility to the states. The order is the latest example of what the Times describes as Trump’s “strikingly aggressive approach to power, moving swiftly to claim more authority and barrel through norms…”
