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Democratic state officials urge US Supreme Court to affirm pause on Trump vote-by-mail order
['Jacob Fischler']
KiowaCountyPress.net - Kiowa<br>County<br>Press
States do not have time before November’s midterm elections to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating overhauls of their mail-in-voting systems, two dozen Democratic state officials told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.
The court is compelled to keep voting rules in place this close to an election, but the executive order would force massive changes on state administrators, they wrote.
Postal Service has authority to administer elections under the U.S. Constitution, which assigns that responsibility to state governments, the Democrats wrote.
Their filing was the Democrats’ response to the Justice Department request that the Supreme Court overturn an appeals court decision against lifting a district court stay of the executive order.
And Democratic campaign groups said the order was plainly unconstitutional and rejected the administration’s argument, saying it “makes little sense.”