Federal agencies haven’t started on Trump order restricting voting by mail, DOJ says
Federal agencies say they have not taken final steps, and the DOJ says courts should wait until Trump’s mail-ballot order is actually implemented.
- In a Friday filing, the Justice Department urged Judge Carl J. Nichols to dismiss a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's mail-ballot Executive Order, arguing the legal challenge is premature.
- Last month, 37 Democrats signed a letter to Postmaster General David Steiner urging the Postal Service to reject the March 31 Executive Order, which restricts mail-in voting and directs creation of state citizenship lists.
- Officials at three agencies—the Postal Service, Homeland Security, and the Social Security Administration—filed court declarations Friday stating final decisions have not been made, with Steven Monteith writing they are still evaluating 'legal considerations.'
- Stephen Pezzi, a senior trial counsel in the Justice Department's Civil Division, wrote that the dispute is an 'abstract legal question' that cannot be resolved before agencies act, while Republican attorneys general defend the 'unitary executive theory.'
- Judge Nichols scheduled a hearing for May 14, as legal experts like James Campbell Jr. warn that Supreme Court approval of Trump's control over independent agencies would mark a 'tremendous' change in federal government operations.
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Ballots that had arrived by mail or were set aside on Election Day, 2024, sit on a table at the Cass County Courthouse in North Dakota on Nov. 18, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)Federal agencies say they have yet to take steps to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, as the Department of Justice fights a Democrat-led lawsuit against it. The Justice Department late Friday filed documents a…
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Federal agencies haven’t started on Trump order restricting voting by mail, DOJ says
Ballots that had arrived by mail or were set aside on Election Day, 2024, sit on a table at the Cass County Courthouse in North Dakota on Nov. 18, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)Federal agencies say they have yet to take steps to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, as the Department of Justice fights a Democrat-led lawsuit against it. The Justice Department late Friday filed documents a…
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