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(169,909 posts) Thu Apr 2, 2026, 08:54 AM Thursday

Democrats sue to block Trump's executive order targeting mail ballots

Source: AP

Updated 10:47 PM EDT, April 1, 2026

Democrats sued Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s latest executive order restricting mail voting, arguing that the U.S. Constitution empowers states and Congress, not the president, to determine who is eligible to vote by mail.

The lawsuit marks the second round of battles over the president’s power to control elections. Trump’s opponents handily won the first round last year, blocking his initial executive order intended to reshape election procedures by convincing multiple federal judges that it was likely unconstitutional.

Trump on Tuesday announced that his administration would compile lists of who is eligible to vote in states and that the U.S. Postal Service would only mail ballots to those who met that criteria. Critics note that there’s little time to comb through voter rolls before ballots start going out for this fall’s elections, in some places as soon as September, and question whether the administration’s list would be reliable.

The lawsuit was filed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic National Committee and other party organizations working on campaigns for the House, Senate and governor offices around the country. Trump is one of the defendants, along with top administration officials.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elections-mail-ballots-democrats-8d58e1e194c3b85a94a562ef8807a016

Link to Democracy Docket SUIT page - Trump Mail-In Voting Executive Order Challenge (DSCC)

Link to Democracy Docket SUIT (PDF) - https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1-2026-04-01-Complaint-2.pdf

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Democrats sue to block Trump's executive order targeting mail ballots (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Thursday OP

Who has to pay for the lawsuits to block trump's illegal EO's? Bayard Thursday #1

For the legal groups - they usually do it "pro bono" and fund it from donations BumRushDaShow Thursday #2

Trump may have accidentally torpedoed his own bid to seize voter rolls: analyst LetMyPeopleVote 21 hrs ago #3

Bayard

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1. Who has to pay for the lawsuits to block trump's illegal EO's?

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Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:43 AM

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BumRushDaShow

(169,909 posts)

2. For the legal groups - they usually do it "pro bono" and fund it from donations

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Thu Apr 2, 2026, 12:02 PM

Thursday

I expect that in this case, the DNC kicked in money (plus the affiliated DCCC and DSCC orgd, along with their own legal teams assisting).

LetMyPeopleVote

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3. Trump may have accidentally torpedoed his own bid to seize voter rolls: analyst

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Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:06 PM

21 hrs ago

I am still pissed that Texas gave trump all of Texas' voter information. The trump DOJ has sued 20+ states trying to get these records and so far has not won any of these lawsuits. In these lawsuits, the DOJ never really states why they really need these records. trump's voting by mail executive order is clearly the reason for these lawsuits.

Trump acknowledged in his executive order that he "directs DHS to create a nationwide voter registration database.â€

Trump may have accidentallyÂ torpedoed his own bid to seize voter rolls: analyst

www.rawstory.com/trump-voting...
— Evie (@evie55.bsky.social) 2026-04-03T20:06:48.463Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-voting-2676662305/

President Donald Trump's executive order demanding states put new procedures in place for mail-in voting and turn over information about who is voting by mail is almost certain to be struck down in court, Jim Saksa wrote for Democracy Docket on Friday — but that's not the only way it could derail Trump's ambitions.

That's because this order could also undermine one of the main arguments Trump's Justice Department has used in court to defend the lawsuits filed against dozens of states to seize their voting rolls.

"In those lawsuits, the DOJ has claimed it needs millions of voters’ private sensitive data in order to ensure the states are complying with federal laws that require states to take steps to ensure accurate rolls," said the report. "But outside of court, DOJ officials like Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon have undermined that claim by boasting that the state voter records they’ve already obtained have been used to verify citizenship status using the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program."

After judges began ruling against the lawsuits on these grounds, DOJ officials backpedaled somewhat and said there was no plan to help the Department of Homeland Security build a national database of voters.

Trump, however, may have blown that excuse by outright acknowledging in his executive order that he "directs DHS to create a nationwide voter registration database," noted the report.

"Along with Dhillon’s statements and Trump’s orders, the DOJ’s courtroom attestations have been impeached repeatedly," wrote Saksa. For example, "last week, CBS reported that DOJ and DHS were working to formalize a data-sharing agreement for the voter rolls. And on the same day Tucker was assuring a federal judge that the DOJ wouldn’t share state records with DHS, Eric Neff, acting chief of the DOJ’s Voting Rights Section, admitted to another judge in Rhode Island that they, in fact, would."

trump's DOJ/DHS really want a nationwide voter database with a ton of confidential information. This database would be used to enforce trump's voter id executive order. It will be fun seeing trump's executive order being cited in these lawsuits.

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